PTS | QOLIBRI for All Age Groups: Follow-Up Research Project Strengthens Digitalization and International Application
How do people experience daily life after a traumatic brain injury (TBI)? How can their health-related quality of life be reliably assessed regardless of age, language, or background? These are the questions that the international QOLIBRI initiative has been addressing for many years, with Prof. Dr. Marina Zeldovich of Sigmund Freud Private University playing a key role in its development.
Following the successful completion of the QOLIBRI-KID/ADO project — in which instruments for assessing the quality of life of young children, children, and adolescents after a TBI were developed and scientifically validated for the first time — the follow-up project “QOLIBRI for All Age Groups: Digitalization, Dissemination, and International Application” is now getting underway. The project is led by Prof. Dr. Marina Zeldovich (Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna) and carried out in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Steffen Kunzmann (Clementine Kinderhospital Frankfurt).
The project focuses on the further development of the entire QOLIBRI family of instruments: quality of life after TBI can now be assessed from childhood and adolescence through to adulthood. The aim is not only to advance the instruments scientifically, but also to make them easier to access and use worldwide through modern digital solutions.
A key focus of the project is therefore the development of a digital infrastructure that supports the international use of the instruments. This includes digital workflows for translation and validation processes, standardized quality controls, and modern software solutions that facilitate scientific exchange between international research partners. In addition, AI-supported methods are to be used to make translation and documentation processes more efficient while ensuring high scientific quality standards.
These developments benefit not only researchers but, in the long term, also clinics and rehabilitation facilities. Easier international application will allow results from different countries to be compared more effectively. At the same time, the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in research and clinical practice will be facilitated. This will make it possible to capture the impact of TBI on quality of life more systematically and to better support treatment progress.
The new project builds directly on the long-standing success of QOLIBRI research and aims to establish the instruments as the international standard for assessing quality of life after TBI across all age groups.
1 September 2026