Browse the latest research summaries in the field of mental health for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2015 • April 1, 2015
The study aimed to develop self-report measures of social attitudes that act as environmental facilitators or barriers to the participation of people with disabilities in society. A mixed methods appr...
KEY FINDING: The study developed a new Social Attitudes item pool that includes both negative and positive social attitudes.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2017 • September 1, 2017
This study aimed to identify the prevalence of adjustment disorders (AJD) among individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and to determine the pattern of defense styles used by this population. The st...
KEY FINDING: The prevalence of AJD was estimated to be 28% among individuals with SCI.
Qual Life Res, 2016 • October 1, 2016
The University of Washington Self-Efficacy Scale (UW-SES) was originally developed for people with multiple sclerosis (MS) and spinal cord injury (SCI). This study evaluates the measurement invariance...
KEY FINDING: The study found that the UW-SES short form has scalar invariance across the four diagnostic subgroups (MD, MS, PPS, and SCI).
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2016 • January 1, 2016
The study aimed to identify changes in psychosocial factors, relationships between these factors, and significant predictors of resilience in adults with SCI during inpatient rehabilitation and at 3-m...
KEY FINDING: Resilience appears to be stable from inpatient to 3-month follow-up.
Clin J Pain, 2015 • October 1, 2015
This study investigates the relationship between anterior brain asymmetry (FAA) and future pain-related catastrophizing in individuals with spinal cord injury. The AAE model suggests that greater left...
KEY FINDING: Anterior asymmetry scores reflecting greater left than right anterior activity were negatively associated with subsequent catastrophizing.
BMC Psychology, 2016 • July 14, 2016
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a Multi-Family Group (MFG) intervention for individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and their primary caregivers, comparing it to an active SCI education ...
KEY FINDING: The study hypothesizes that MFG-SCI will be superior to SCIEC for SCI patient activation, health status, and emotion regulation, caregiver burden and health status, and relationship functioning.
BMJ Open, 2016 • September 1, 2016
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated and compared the psychological impact of physical injuries sustained in motor vehicle crashes. The meta-analysis methodology was rigorously applied, ...
KEY FINDING: Elevated psychological distress is associated with MVC-related injuries, with a large effect size in WAD, medium to large in SCI, and small to medium in mTBI.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2015 • January 1, 2015
This systematic review evaluated the observational data for 3,172 adults with an acquired SCI to identify the strongest psychosocial correlates of depression post injury. The present findings support ...
KEY FINDING: Individual personal variables including affective feelings, and thoughts and beliefs specific to SCI demonstrated the strongest relationship with depression self-ratings.
BMC Health Services Research, 2016 • September 20, 2016
The study aimed to compare the prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders using health survey information only, claims only, and health survey plus claims information in the Medicare population. The res...
KEY FINDING: Combining health survey and claims data increased the estimated proportion of the sample with neuropsychiatric disorders to 50.0 %, compared to 38.9 % with health survey only and 33.2 % with claims only.
Front. Behav. Neurosci., 2015 • May 5, 2015
The study investigated the role of the cerebellum in processing regret using a gambling task with cerebellar patients and healthy controls. The key finding was that cerebellar damage impairs the self-...
KEY FINDING: Patients with cerebellar lesions were significantly impaired in evaluating the feeling of regret subjectively compared to controls.