Recommendations for an inclusive digital budgeting assistance solution for individuals with traumatic brain injury.

People with traumatic brain injury (TBI) experience difficulties in managing and maintaining a budget. Technology can assist and support the impaired cognitive functions of CBT and help improve social participation. The literature demonstrates a critical lack of technology adapted to individuals with CBT.

Objective: To develop recommendations for an inclusive digital budgeting solution (IDBS) in which assistive settings meet the needs of the cognitive, sensory, and environmental profiles of individuals with CBD.

Methodology: Based on participatory action research in technology and integrated knowledge translation.

  1. Analyze the environment to identify the needs of future users and the different assistance profiles and
  2. Develop recommendations.

Expected results:

  • 1/Identification of the specific needs of the association’s CBT individuals.
  • 2/Recommendations for a SNIB.
  • 3/Proposal of an existing SNIB or a SNIB development specification.
Global progress
Literature review and analysis of a specific application
ATCCDR Knowledge User Needs Analysis (Focus Group)
Focus group
Validation of recommendations (e- Delphi)
Technology survey (Tech survey)
And evaluation of existing digital solutions (Tests/Scenarios)
Dissemination of the existing digital solution or elaboration of a specification 7.
Dissemination and knowledge transfer
Team members

Frédérique Poncet, Centre de réadaptation du Lethbridge- Layton-Mackay du CIUSSS Centre-Ouest-de-l’île-de Montréal (CCOMTL) ; School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, l’École d’optométrie de l’Université de Montréal, CRIR, REPAR Membre régulier.
Amine Choukou, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Occupationnal Therapy, U. of Manitoba, REPAR Membre régulier.
Association des Traumatisés cranio-cérébraux des Deux-Rives ATTCDR
Couvre les territoires de Québec (03) et Chaudière-Appalaches (12), comprend 2 bureaux principaux : Ville de Québec et ville de St-Georges de Beauce et 6 points de services
• – Représenté par Benoit Durant, directeur général.
Co-Chercheurs
Simon Beaulieu-Bonneau, École de psychologie, Faculté des Sciences sociales, U. Laval. CIRRIS, REPAR,
• Walter Wittich, École optométrie. U. de Montréal, CRIR, REPAR,
• Eva Kehayia, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy,
• McGill University, CRIR, INTER, Santé,
• O. Piquer, Centre et Est du Québec de Fusion Jeunesse, candidat MSc. Réadaptation à U. Laval, CIRRIS, Société et culture F. Prats, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) candidat MSc. Ergothérapie,
• Centre de réadaptation du Lethbridge-Layton-Mackay du CIUSSS Centre-Ouest-de-l’île-de Montréal (CCOMTL),
• Association Québécoise des traumatisés crânien de Montréal (AQTC),

Innovation stages
  • Émergence, Expérimentation
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