SynthesisSpinal cord2017
Posttraumatic stress following spinal cord injury: a systematic review of risk and vulnerability factors.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Management of Mental Health Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Suicide in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury: Clinical Practice Guideline for Healthcare Providers.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitationGuideline
- Depression and Social Support Among Hospitalized Patients with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The preventive effect of emergency psychological intervention on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in patients with acute spinal cord injury: a retrospective cohort study.BMC emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Review
- Post-traumatic stress disorder among individuals with traumatic spinal cord injury in Nepal: a cross-sectional study.Spinal cord series and cases · 2023Article
- Suicidal ideation, post-traumatic stress disorder, and depression in traumatic spinal cord injury: What resilience tells us.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2023Article
- Psychosocial Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury: A Narrative Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Review
- Post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and pain intensity in persons with spinal cord injury.Spinal cord · 2021Article
- Management of Mental Health Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, and Suicide in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury.The journal of spinal cord medicine · 2021Article
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- Cervical muscle diseases are associated with indefinite and various symptoms in the whole body.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2020Article
- Psychological morbidities and positive psychological outcomes in people with traumatic spinal cord injury in Mainland China.Spinal cord · 2018Article
- Increased psychological distress among individuals with spinal cord injury is associated with central neuropathic pain rather than the injury characteristics.Spinal cord · 2018Article
- The Use of Virtual Reality to Facilitate Mindfulness Skills Training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury: A Case Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectivesTo summarise quantitatively the available evidence relating to pretraumatic, peritraumatic and posttraumatic characteristics that may increase or decrease the risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following spinal cord injury (SCI). STUDY
designSystematic review.
methodsSeventeen studies were identified from the PubMed, PsycInfo, Embase, Scopus, CINAHL, Web of Science and PILOTS databases. Effect size estimates (r) with associated 95% confidence intervals (CIs), P-values and fail-safe Ns were calculated.
resultsIndividual studies reported medium-to-large associations between factors that occurred before (psychiatric history r=0.48 (95% CI, 0.23-0.79) P=0.01) or at the time of injury (tetraplegia r=-0.36 (95% CI, -0.50 to -0.19) P<0.01). Postinjury factors had the strongest pooled effects: depressed mood (r
conclusionCombinations of peri- and post-injury factors appear to be influential in the development of PTSD among persons with SCI. Further studies are needed to extrapolate these findings to the broader spinal cord-injured population. More longitudinal research, driven by multicausal models of causation such as the diathesis-stress model, is also needed to determine the temporality of PTSD risk factors.
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