HealthDay (7/13, Murez) reports, “Marriages can remain stable after something as challenging as a brain injury for one of the spouses,” investigators concluded even though “past reports have suggested that divorce rates were high among those who experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI).” In the study, researchers examined “more than 1,400 patients from a database of people hospitalized with TBI” and found that “66% of the patients with TBI remained married to the same person 10 years after the injury.” Approximately “68% of the marriages that did end did so within five years of the injury, including 39% within that first year.” The findings were published online in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
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— “Most Marriages Survive a Spouse’s Brain Injury “Cara Murez, HealthDay, July 13, 2021