Original articleRelationship Between Quality of Life and Self-Efficacy in Persons With Spinal Cord Injuries
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Participants
Participants included persons with SCI of at least 12 months in duration who had received treatment in a specialized rehabilitation unit after an acute injury or community readmission over the previous 5 years and were now living in the community. Altogether, we sent out 233 invitations asking the persons with SCI to complete the SF-36 and the MSES. Seventeen were sent to incorrect postal addresses, 19 were returned unopened, and 87 were not returned. A total of 110 persons completed and
Results
Table 1 shows the descriptive statistics for the entire group of 106 as well as for able-bodied Australians. The SCI group was found to have significantly lower QOL scores on all 8 SF-36 domains when compared with Australian norms standardized for age and sex. Table 1 also shows the mean MSES level for the 106 persons with SCI. Pearson correlation analyses failed to find any significant associations between self-efficacy (MSES scores) and sex, age, level or completeness of lesion, and time
Discussion
The findings of this research confirmed the results of a number of prior studies that have investigated the QOL of people with SCI.4, 7, 8, 25 The SCI sample that participated in the present study had consistently lower QOL scores than those in the Australian general population across all the 8 SF-36 domains. Not surprisingly, SCI had a large impact on physical functioning, physical role limitations, and pain. These 3 areas were found to have large effect sizes ranging from 1.8, .96, to .85,
Conclusions
Future studies will need to control for major variables such as age, completeness, time since injury, and so on, so that the influence of pain and self-efficacy is delineated.
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