Current Research at Headway
Examples of previous and currently ongoing projects include:
- An investigation into ABI clients' perceptions of their mental health needs and experiences;
- An examination of the relationship between brain injury severity and measures of premorbid functioning;
- A large-scale study examining attention and distractibility difficulties among ABI clients and methods for rehabilitating these (funded by the Health Research Board Ireland, in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin);
- Developing a multiple errands task for use in community neuropsychology settings (funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences);
- In Cork, currently ongoing research projects include an evaluation of a family and carer ABI education group, as well as a study examining the relationship between the community integration of individuals with ABI and the perceived acceptance, perceived severity and perceived stigma of their brain injury.
For information about any of these projects contact any of our Ethics Committee Members.