This article describes the Head Injury Family Interview (HI-FI), a fiv
e-part structured interview designed to gather clinical and research d
ata on persons with head injury and their family members. The HI-FI wa
s developed over a 10-year period at the Research and Training Center
on Head Injury and Stroke of New York University Medical Center to tra
ck outcomes of persons recovering from traumatic brain injury, with in
put from both the injured person and significant others, and to docume
nt the impact of the injury on the family system. The structure, conte
nts, rationale, and development of the interviews are described, as we
ll as its clinical utility and research potential. In addition, the st
atistical properties of one particular instrument within the interview
, the Problem Checklist, are detailed and data presented from a multi-
center study.