Action Ethnography of Community Reintegration for Veterans and Military Service Members With Traumatic Brain Injury: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Christine Melillo   ¹ , MPH, RN, PhD ;   Kiersten Downs   ¹ , PhD ;   Christina Dillahunt-Aspillaga   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Jason Lind   ¹ , PhD ;   Karen Besterman-Dahan   ¹ , PhD ;   Bridget Hahm   ¹ , MA, MPH ;   Nicole Antinori   ¹ , MBA ;   Christine Elnitsky   ³ , RN, PhD ;   Angelle M Sander   ^{4, 5} , PhD ;   Heather G Belanger   ⁶ , PhD ;   Peter Toyinbo   ¹ , MBChB, CPH, PhD ;   Gail Powell-Cope   ⁷ , FAAN, ARNP, PhD

¹ Research and Development Service, James A Haley Veterans’ Hospital, Veterans Health Administration, Tampa, FL, United States

² Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling Program, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States

³ School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States

⁴ Brain Injury Research Center, TIRR Memorial Hermann, Houston, TX, United States

⁵ H Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States

⁶ Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, US Special Operations Command, Tampa, FL, United States

⁷ Research and Development Service, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital (retired), Tampa, FL, United States