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Around 6 million people in the US suffer from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), which could come from car crashes, penetrating wounds, blunt injuries to the head, and trauma of soldiers serving in warring countries. 53.1% of the 559 patients studied also suffered major depression during the follow-up study. It has been found that only 44% of TBI patients get treated with counseling or medications. Those who are hospitalized for TBI have 8 times higher risk of also suffering major depression. The depression might appear in the beginning, but risk is usually present for the whole year or longer.
Another study, consisting of 1,000 patients, found that giving patients medication and/or cognitive behavioral therapy together with professional monitoring provided better results than Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management (CALM) program.
A third study noted that patient care through an individualized program decreased the number of suicidal deaths to zero at the Henry Ford Health System over the past 2.5 years. This helps to provide breakthroughs in mental health care.
Source:May 18, 2010, news conference with Peter Roy-Byrne, M.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, and Charles H. Bombardier, Ph.D., professor of rehabilitation medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; May 19, 2010, Journal of the American Medical Association, May 18, 2010, news release, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit
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