scholarly journals The Comparison of Social Support Against the Life Quality of The Spinal Cord Injury Under Stress

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Cord Injury

scholarly journals Associations between health behaviour, secondary health conditions and quality of life in people with spinal cord injury

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mokgadi K. Mashola ◽  
Diphale J. Mothabeng
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Cord Injury

Background: The development of secondary health conditions (SHCs) after spinal cord injury (SCI) is common and can affect an individual’s emotional well-being, and his or her health-related quality of life (QOL). Little is known about relationships between performing health-benefiting behaviours and the presence (or absence) of SHCs and QOL, particularly in South Africa.Objectives: This research study was conducted in order to determine the associations between health behaviour, SHCs and QOL in people with SCI (PWSCI).Method: This cross-sectional study included 36 PWSCI discharged from a private rehabilitation facility in Pretoria, South Africa. The PWSCI completed questionnaires pertaining to lifestyle, independence, presence of SHCs, social support and QOL. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics such as correlation tests and chi-square test of independence (x2) using the SPSS v25. Moderate, moderately high and high correlations are reported (Pearson r ≥ 0.4). Results were significant if p  0.05.Results: Participation in health-benefiting behaviour was associated with increased QOL (r = 0.457, p  0.01) and increased social support from family and friends (r = 0.425, p  0.01), which was associated with increased QOL (r = 0.671, p  0.001). Not participating in specific neuromusculoskeletal health behaviours was found to be associated with the overall presence of SHCs (r = -0.426, p  0.01).Conclusions: Participating in health-benefiting behaviour can reduce the development of SHCs and subsequently increase QOL in PWSCI. Health professionals must focus on minimising the development of SHCs by providing specific education on good health-benefiting behaviour.

scholarly journals Social Skills: A Resource for More Social Support, Lower Depression Levels, Higher Quality of Life, and Participation in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury?

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Müller ◽  
Claudio Peter ◽  
Alarcos Cieza ◽  
Marcel W. Post ◽  
Christel M. Van Leeuwen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Cord Injury

scholarly journals Association between self-esteem, depression, social support, and quality of life among patients with cerebrovascular accidents and spinal cord injury

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adebisi Isiak Hammed ◽  
Ebere Ugboh
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Spinal Cord ◽  
Spinal Cord Injury ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Stroke Patients ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Cord Injury

Study aim: The study determined the association between self-esteem, depression, social support and quality of life among patients with cerebrovascular accident (stroke) and spinal cord injury. Material and methods: The study adopted a cross-sectional survey research design. A total of 60 participants (30 stroke patients and 30 spinal cord injured patients) participated in this study. The selected psychosocial variables such as Depression and Self Esteem were assessed using Beck Depression Inventory Questionnaire (BDI) and Self Esteem Questionnaire (SE) respectively. Also, social support and quality of life were assessed using Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ6) and Short Form (SF-36) Health Questionnaire respectively. The association between social support, depression, self-esteem and quality of life in both spinal cord injury and stroke patients and the demographic variables were analyzed using Spearman rho. However, independent sample t-test was used to analyze the difference between social support, depression, self-esteem and quality of life in spinal cord injury and social support, depression, self-esteem and quality of life in stroke. Results: The outcome of this study showed that there is a significant difference in depression between both stroke and spinal cord injury patients (p<0.05). The findings also showed a significant association between depression, quality of life and age in stroke patients. Equally, there was a significant association between depression, social support, and age in spinal cord injury patients. Conclusion: It was therefore concluded that even though stroke patients receive more social support and have a higher quality of life, they are still more depressed and have lower self-esteem compared to spinal cord injury patients. It was thus recommended that physiotherapists and other health professionals should make an appropriate assessment of the quality of life, self-esteem, depression and social support of stroke and spinal cord injury patients to enable proper management of these individuals.

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