Association of disease outcomes with physical activity in multiple sclerosis: A cross-sectional study.
Conclusion/Implications: The findings identified walking endurance and limitations, processing speed, depression, and fatigue as primary correlates of physical activity differences in persons with MS. These results may inform researchers and health care providers to consider these factors in behavior change interventions and clinical practices for promoting adequate physical activity levels in MS. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - July 14, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Participation importance and satisfaction across the lifespan: A traumatic brain injury model systems study.
Conclusion: Participation importance, satisfaction, and frequency are related, yet distinct, dimensions of participation that should all be measured to adequately evaluate meaningful participation. Future research should explore interventions across the lifespan that target modifiable predictors, like functional cognition and access to frequent participation in important life activities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - July 14, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Active or passive pain coping: Which predicts daily physical and psychosocial functioning in people with chronic pain and spinal cord injury?
Purpose/Objective: Despite medical and psychotherapeutic treatments, chronic pain is one of the most challenging and disabling conditions for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). A growing body of research has demonstrated that pain coping strategies are effective for the adjustment of pain. However, we still lack an understanding of how passive pain coping and active pain coping relate to daily physical and psychosocial functioning for people with chronic pain and SCI. The current study used end-of-day (EOD) diary data to examine associations of passive and active pain coping with same-day independence, positive aff...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - July 14, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Investigating the teaching experiences of psychology graduate students with disabilities: A qualitative study.
Conclusions/Implications: Disabled graduate student teachers often lack environments and resources where they can receive disability-specific support and accommodations for teaching. Faculty and programs should develop and promote disability-affirmative training cultures that actively support graduate student teachers with disabilities, including departmental cultures that de-stigmatize disability disclosure and accommodations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - July 14, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Adaptations to mindfulness-based interventions for neurological impairment: The SMALL PROMPTS approach.
Conclusion/Implications: Mindfulness is a highly applicable approach for people with sensory loss, however significant, specific adaptations are required to improve inclusivity and accessibility. The SMALL PROMPTS adaptations increase the accessibility, applicability, and utility of MBIs for populations living with NI, enhancing effective management of physical and psychological wellbeing, and optimizing MBI delivery. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - July 7, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
A registry-based observational cohort study examining patterns of pain and mental health symptoms and their impact on work or other activities after injury.
Conclusion/Implications: Reduced pain and mental health symptoms and related impairments were primarily associated with nonmodifiable biological, social, or economic characteristics. People with persistent symptoms were often already living with social disadvantage preinjury, and may have benefited from risk screening and proactive interventions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 16, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Strategies for health care providers to help individuals experiencing grief and loss due to spinal cord injury (SCI): A qualitative study.
Conclusions: Providers identified strategies to facilitate holistic patient-centered grief care that included open communication, empathy, trust, and normalizing the grief experience, where appropriate. Providers believed that regular screenings for feelings of grief and loss are necessary to know where individuals with SCI are at in the grief process and what they need. Ideal grief care would benefit from coordinated care, support services, and patient education. These findings offer steps to guide health provider’s approach to addressing grief and loss due to injury among individuals with SCI. (PsycInfo Database Record...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 19, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Psychosocial and vocational impacts of COVID-19 on people with and without disabilities.
Conclusion/Implications: Findings highlight the employment and psychosocial impacts of a global pandemic and provide implications for moving forward in regards to vocational and psychosocial intervention services and supports that will be needed, especially for those with CID. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
The association between sleep and cognitive function in people with spinal cord injury (SCI).
Conclusions/Implications: Future work is needed to better understand the relationship of sleep, especially sleep physiology, and cognitive functioning for individuals with SCI, and how that may be similar or different to relationships in the general population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 12, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Pain, mental health, life satisfaction, and understanding from others in veterans with spinal cord injury.
This study evaluated the relationships among pain, mental health symptom severity, life satisfaction, and understanding from others in veterans with spinal cord injury (SCI). Research Method/Design: A sample of 221 individuals with SCI were interviewed by a psychologist during their annual evaluation in a Veterans Affairs medical center in an urban Mid-Atlantic region. Participants completed single-item, Likert-scale measures of life satisfaction (McGuire Health Impact on Participation [M-HIP]), pain severity (M-HIP), and understanding of others (from a modified Appraisals of DisAbility Primary and Secondary Scale-Short Fo...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 5, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
A systematic review of how spinal cord injury impacts families.
Conclusions: SCI significantly impacts caregivers’ sense of burden and psychological distress, with major implications for family functioning and caregivers’ physical, mental, and social health. These issues occurred internationally and endured over time. Findings indicated the need for focused interventions to support caregivers’ psychosocial adjustment after SCI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - May 5, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
A survey of postdoctoral training in rehabilitation psychology in the United States and Canada: 2019.
Conclusions: Compared to 2007, there has been a 200% increase in the number of training programs with rehabilitation involvement. However, there has been an overall decrease in the variety of populations with which residents work, and an overall decrease in the number of ABRP competencies that are formally taught, so that training has become more focused on specific populations and specific competencies to the exclusion of others. Many rehabilitation patients and teams receive services from psychologists whose professional concentration is not primarily in rehabilitation psychology, and many psychology residents involved w...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - April 21, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Relationship between number of disability-related conditions and stigma among U.S. adults.
Conclusion/Implications: This research is important because it increases understanding of factors that may play a role in stigma experiences for people with disabilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - April 14, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
The longitudinal development of posttraumatic growth among U.S. adult burn injury survivors.
Conclusions: Burn survivors vary in their degree of posttraumatic growth, with growth largely stable by 6 months postinjury. Targeted intervention to facilitate growth, and thus physical health and mental health, should be completed prior to 6 months postinjury. Burn-related stigma may be a modifiable factor that can enhance posttraumatic growth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - April 14, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Factors associated with recovery from posttraumatic stress disorder in combat veterans: The role of deployment mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
Conclusions: PTSD recovery was associated with better psychological functioning and higher quality of life, but not with objective cognitive functioning. Deployment mTBI history moderated only the relationship between PTSD recovery status and tests of processing speed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - April 14, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
