Browse the latest research summaries in the field of mental health for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2020 • January 1, 2020
This study aimed to determine the spiritual well-being of patients with spinal cord injury in the eastern region of Turkey and to identify associated socio-demographic factors. The study found that pe...
KEY FINDING: People with SCI in the eastern region of Turkey demonstrate moderately high levels of spiritual well-being.
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2020 • July 25, 2020
This study investigated the impact of nerve injury on mood disorders and memory loss, examining the roles of cytokines, growth factors, and glial cells in the process. The researchers induced nerve in...
KEY FINDING: Nerve injury induces depressive-like and anxiety-like behaviors as well as impairment in short-term memory in mice.
BMC Psychology, 2020 • May 8, 2020
This study investigated the relationship between resilience and psychological distress in significant others of persons with SCI or ABI, focusing on the mediating roles of appraisals of threat and los...
KEY FINDING: High levels of psychological distress were observed among significant others, with 34–41% showing high anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2022 • December 1, 2022
This study protocol outlines a multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to evaluate the efficacy of a 6-week group therapy intervention, "ReInventing Yourself after SCI," aimed at improvin...
KEY FINDING: The primary hypothesis is that participants in the Group arm will report greater improvements in psychosocial outcomes than participants who complete the intervention individually via video (Individual arm) or those who do not receive the intervention (Control arm).
Alpha Psychiatry, 2022 • July 1, 2022
The letter discusses the development of a culturally sensitive psychosocial care program (COSP) for Chinese people with spinal cord injury (SCI) during inpatient rehabilitation. The COSP program was d...
KEY FINDING: The COSP program showed positive effects on psychosocial outcomes such as coping, depression, anxiety, and quality of life.
J Head Trauma Rehabil, 2021 • January 1, 2021
The study evaluated the relationship between cognitive test performance and functional disability in veterans with mTBI and/or PTSD compared to a deployed control group. Results indicated that cogniti...
KEY FINDING: Cognitive test performances generally did not predict functioning in clinical groups (mTBI, PTSD, or both) when accounting for other factors.
Spinal Cord, 2019 • December 1, 2019
This study explored unique predictors of perceived injustice versus depression in individuals undergoing inpatient rehabilitation after spinal cord injury. The research identified time since injury, s...
KEY FINDING: Time since injury, state anger, and sex had significantly different relationships with perceived injustice compared to depression symptoms.
AJOB Neurosci., 2021 • January 1, 2021
The authors identify four dimensions of ethical inquiry—responsibility, privacy, authenticity, and trust—as dimensions of agency that may be impacted by the use of neurotechnologies. They present an A...
KEY FINDING: The dimension of responsibility is linked to the agential competency of exercising control over BCI-mediated movement.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 • August 27, 2020
The study investigated verb-related morphosyntactic production in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS), focusing on subject-verb agreement, time reference/tense, and grammatical aspect in Greek. T...
KEY FINDING: Overall, the RRMS and SPMS groups performed significantly worse than their matched control groups.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2020 • November 1, 2019
This study investigated the temporal relationship between resilience and various function domains (anxiety, depression, social role satisfaction, and physical function) in adults with chronic physical...
KEY FINDING: Resilience has significant reciprocal relationships with anxiety, depression and social role satisfaction, but not physical function.