Characteristics of facility-based community integration programs for people with brain injury

Objectives: To conduct a nationwide telephone survey to gather data on some of the quantifiable characteristics of community integration programs available nationwide to adults with brain injury. Design: The Community Integration Program Questionnaire was used to interview 49 outpatient facility-based community integration programs between June 2002 and June 2003. We then used descriptive statistics to analyze the characteristics of the programs. Results: There was tremendous variability in the areas of staffing, client, and programmatic characteristics. Conclusions: There is considerable variability among programs with respect to quantifiable characteristics of facility-based community integration programs. Future studies should explore which charateristics affect outcomes.