RETRO-TBI: Longitudinal Assessments of Older Adults with Mild Brain Injury

250 participants aged 65+ with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are enrolled in the RETRO-TBI prospective cohort study. The dataset, authored by Jennifer S. Albrecht and last updated in June 2026, tracks recovery across physical, cognitive, psychological, and sleep domains over 12 months post-injury, with in-home visits and blood samples collected at multiple intervals.

Use Cases

• Modeling recovery trajectories in physical function based on longitudinal assessments.
• Identifying predictors of poor cognitive or psychological recovery based on repeated measures.
• Analyzing associations between recovery patterns across different functional domains.
• Studying heterogeneity in recovery outcomes among older adults with mTBI.

Strengths

• Focus on an understudied population: older adults (65+) with mild TBI.
• Longitudinal design with planned follow-ups at 2 weeks, 3, 6, and 12 months post-injury.
• Multidimensional assessment covering physical, cognitive, psychological, and sleep domains.
• Includes collection of blood samples at all study visits.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (9.5 KB), indicating limited scope or summary-level data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Prospective cohort study with in-home visits and biospecimen collection.

Time Range

Follow-up period spans 12 months post-injury for each participant.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 17:40:45; freshness should be verified.