E-ISSN : 2733-4538
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between clinical characteristics and KEDI-WISC response in children with traumatic brain injury. Subjects were 67(boy; 44, girl 23) patients with Mental Disorder Due to Head Trauma(ages 5 to 15). In clinical characteristics, site, duration of loss of consciousness, duration of post-traumatic amnesia, post-traumatic epilepsy, hemiparesis, chief problem, sensory alterations were included. The results were as followed. First, factor analysis on KEDI-WISC 12 subscales produced two factors: 'attention and perceputal organization', 'verbal comprehension'. Second, cluster analysis using factor scores showed demented level of cognitive function in cluster I and low level of judgement and average level of cognitive function in cluster 2. Finally, logistic regression analysis indicated that duration of loss of consciousness among clinical characteristics predicted the risk of cluster 1. The limitations of this study and the suggestions for future research were discussed.