The Brain Injury Research Center makes available screening and assessment tools that help providers and researchers identify and treat the very personal manifestations of traumatic brain injury in any one patient.
Brain Injury Screening Questionnaire (BISQ)
Research suggests that a portion of the population suffer mild brain injuries but never realize that problems they experience may be due to a blow to the head—even one that occurred years earlier. Identifying TBI in children and adults can contribute to seeking appropriate services that may help them cope with persistent symptoms related to a head injury.
We developed the Brain Injury Screening Questionnaire (BISQ) to screen for lifetime history of TBI and reduce the consequences of undiagnosed or untreated TBI. The BISQ is a structured questionnaire that characterizes incidence and severity of lifetime exposure to head trauma and TBI. The BISQ may be completed via interview or self-administration, and can be conducted as a self- or proxy-report assessment.
The BISQ can be implemented in diverse including schools, service agencies, and health programs. The BISQ captures head injuries and head injury exposures of numerous mechanisms and contexts. One of our recent publications highlights the BISQ’s capability of adequately capturing intimate partner violence (IPV) related head and neck injury, a hidden variable that is commonly missing in TBI research.
If you would like to obtain more information about how you can use the BISQ in your research or practice, e-mail Dr. Kristen Dams-O'Connor at kristen.dams-o'connor@mountsinai.org, and include a brief description of your research project and how you plan to use the BISQ.