Community Integration Questionnaire for patients with brain tumor: a comparative study.

Abstract

This study compares mean scores obtained on the Community Integration Questionnaire among patients with brain tumor and published data for traumatic brain injury and nonpatient groups. Subjects included 33 adult outpatients with biopsy-confirmed high-grade malignant brain tumors. Both sexes were represented. Subjects were older and better educated than historic samples. The Community Integration Questionnaire was positively skewed. Subjects had higher scores on the Social Integration Scale than on Productivity. Higher education was associated with Productivity and the Community Integration Questionnaire total score. However, greater age was associated with lower scores. Significant gender effects were obtained. Women with brain tumors had significantly higher Home Integration Scores than males with tumors. However, Home Integration was lower for persons with brain tumors than for either the corresponding gender in the traumatic brain injury model systems group for males and females, respectively. Similarly, compared with community-dwelling persons with traumatic brain injury, males, but not females, with cerebral tumors had significantly lower Social Integration scores. When compared with nondisabled adults, persons with brain tumors reported significantly lower Productivity and Community Integration Questionnaire total scores.