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This pilot study describes the showering habits of people with brain
injury (BI) compared with those of people without BI (WBI). METHOD: The showering
habits of 10 people with BI and 10 people WBI were measured and compared. A
videotaped session recorded and documented the shower routine. RESULTS: The BI
group spent longer time showering, used more steps, and used fewer products than
the WBI group. A moderately significant relationship was found between time and
age (r = .46, p = .041). Similarly, we found significant correlations between
number of steps and number of products used (r = .64, p = .002) and between the
number of products used and education (r = .47, p = .044). CONCLUSION: Results
suggest that people with BI have showering habits that differ from those WBI.
Correlations, regardless of group, showed that older people showered longer, and
people with more education used more showering products.

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