Feasibility and acceptability of a remote, hands-free cognitive battery for adults with traumatic spinal cord injury.
Conclusion/Implications: Our findings provide evidence for the feasibility and acceptability of administering cognitive testing via teleconference to adults living with TSCI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 29, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Subjective and objective burden and psychological distress in care partners of older adults with traumatic brain injury.
Conclusions/Implications: This study provides a better understanding of the potential impacts of TBI in older age for care partners. Future research should examine how to support adequately care partners in their psychological adaptation after TBI in an elderly person. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 29, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Trajectories of physical health-related quality of life among adults living with burn injuries: A burn model system national database investigation to improve early intervention and rehabilitation service delivery.
Conclusions: These findings emphasize the importance of early universal screening and sustained intervention for those most at risk for low HRQOL following injury. For Class 2 (static), lower than average HRQOL before their injury is a warning. For Class 3 (weakened), if the scores at 6 months show a large decline, then the person is at risk for not regaining their HRQOL by 24 months and thus needs all available interventions to optimize their outcomes. Results of this study provide guidance for how to identify people with burn injury who would benefit from more intensive rehabilitation to help them achieve or regain bette...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 22, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Evaluating the benefits of a second pain treatment following a clinical trial.
Conclusions: There appears to be some value to adding an open label phase to the end of a trial of pain treatments. A substantial portion of study participants elected to participate and reported it to be beneficial. Exploring data from an open label phase can illuminate important aspects of patient experience, barriers to and facilitators of care, as well as treatment preferences. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 19, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Caregiver resilience following traumatic brain injury: Findings at six months postinjury.
Conclusions/Implications: Resilience may be strengthened by emotional support networks, including friends or family who may not already be directly involved in the provision of care. Supporting engagement with community agencies, peer mentors, or other informal resources within the family system that provide emotional support may bolster resilience outcomes for caregivers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 19, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Mental health experiences in 2021 for adults with disabilities who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
Conclusions/Implications: These results highlight the need for expansions of the mental health service delivery system in the United States as well as a prioritization of accessibility and inclusiveness practices. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 8, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Resilience and well-being among persons with spinal cord injury/disorders.
Conclusions: Higher gratitude, MIL, use of personal strengths, and psychological flexibility appear to characterize resilience and well-being among persons with chronic SCID. Further studies are needed to understand the impact of pain interference on HRQL among individuals with cauda equina. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 8, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Effects of hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, and education for chronic pain on substance use in veterans: A supplementary analysis of a randomized clinical trial.
Rehabilitation Psychology, Vol 68(3), Aug 2023, 261-270; doi:10.1037/rep0000507Purpose/Objective: To examine the impact of three behavioral interventions for chronic pain on substance use. Research Method/Design: Participants were 328 Veterans with chronic pain receiving care at one of two Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in the northwest United States. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three 8-week manualized in-person group treatments: (a) hypnosis (HYP), (b) mindfulness meditation (MM), or (c) active education control (ED). Substance use frequency was assessed using 10 individual items from the WHO-ASSIST, a...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 8, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
The use of mindfulness-based interventions in stroke rehabilitation: A scoping review.
Conclusions/Implications: The available evidence lends qualified support to the view that mindfulness has the potential to be a therapeutic intervention that offers health benefits to individuals poststroke. Yet, the diversity of results highlights the need for a more rigorous examination in further research. We also identified several knowledge gaps in mindfulness research in the stroke population, such as the limited amount of evidence for mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), inadequate evaluations of physical outcomes, and the lack of methodologically robust trials. Further investigations are warranted to strengt...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 1, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Distress tolerance mitigates effects of posttraumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, and blast exposure on psychiatric and health outcomes.
Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that DT might be a key factor in postdeployment function for military service members. Treatments targeting DT may be particularly effective in individuals who attribute psychiatric symptoms to history of blast exposure. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 22, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Hopefulness and meaning in adults with disabilities’ physical activity: A qualitative study.
Conclusions/Implications: In the context of health coaching for people with disabilities, identifying sources of personal meaning appears to be necessary for the initial motivation for goal-directed action regarding physical activity. Subsequent generation and maintenance of hope appear to be vital for maintaining physical activity in this population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 18, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Predicting sense of coherence among caregiving partners of persons with multiple sclerosis.
Conclusions/Implications: Findings lend support to the relevance of a salutogenic approach to caregiving in multiple sclerosis. They further suggest the usefulness of interventions that can promote caregivers’ sense of coherence and successful coping in life by benefitting from family support, favoring the construction of a coherent illness view, offering comprehensive information and expert guidance on treatment and rehabilitation opportunities, and promoting adaptive management of negative emotions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 18, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
We still cannot breathe: Applying intersectional ecological model to COVID-19 survivorship.
Conclusions/Implication: As the COVID-19 pandemic shifts to an endemic and efforts to eliminate oppressive systems continue, rehabilitation psychologists have an ongoing, evolving, and shared responsibility to employ socially-responsive solutions to promote optimal functioning for patients, families, and communities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 11, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Advocacy: The seventh foundational principle and core competency of rehabilitation psychology.
Conclusions/Implications: These authors believe that advocacy should be officially adopted as the seventh foundational principle of Rehabilitation Psychology. Rather than define advocacy narrowly as efforts within individual patient or family contexts, we argue that advocacy should be a broad construct of work done alongside the disability community and follow the lead of those with lived experience to avoid unintended consequences of well-intentioned advocacy efforts. We share models of advocacy in the field of psychology, including those most pertinent to rehabilitation psychology. Current disability advocacy priorities ...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 11, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Predicting physical activity following cardiac rehabilitation: A longitudinal observational study.
Conclusion: The results of this study partly speak towards the HAPA in predicting physical activity in cardiac patients, thereby replicating prior research. The HAPA framework offers guidance for motivating and empowering cardiac patients to be more active in their everyday life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 1, 2023 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
