Individualised and health-related quality of life of persons with spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord
Francesco TramontiG Stampacchia

Abstract

Cross sectional. To examine associations among functional status, health-related and individualised quality of life (QoL) and coping style in subjects with spinal cord injury (SCI). Italy. Forty subjects attending our hospital-based rehabilitation centre for SCI were administered the Spinal Cord Independence Measure-version III (SCIM-III), the Short Form-36 (SF-36), the Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual QoL-Direct Weighting (SEIQoL-DW) and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation (CISS) to assess functional status, health-related QoL, individualised QoL and coping strategies, respectively. The SCIM-III scores were positively correlated (P<0.01) with the physical functioning subscale of the SF-36. The only scale that correlated (P<0.01) with the SEIQoL-DW scores was the SF-36 mental health subscale. Positive correlations among task-oriented or avoidance-oriented coping and specific measures of health-related QoL emerged. Data from the present study showed only a few associations among different measures of QoL and suggest that patient-centered evaluations of QoL are not necessarily or strictly related to functional status or health-related QoL. Coping strategies seem to be significantly related to the subjects percep...Continue Reading

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Apr 30, 2016·Quality of Life Research : an International Journal of Quality of Life Aspects of Treatment, Care and Rehabilitation·A M GiovannettiA Solari
Oct 27, 2016·PM & R : the Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation·Sophie JörgensenJan Lexell
Jun 23, 2020·Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice·Francesco Tramonti
Aug 30, 2018·American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation·Julien GouletJean-Marc Mac-Thiong
May 4, 2021·American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation·Alejandro García-RudolphJoan Saurí

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