ArticleRehabilitation psychology2021
Association of physical and mental symptoms with cognition in people with spinal cord injury.
Article in Rehabilitation psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The relationship between depression and cognitive function among adults with spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Spinal cord · 2026Pooled it
- Implementing psychosocial guidelines into specialized spinal cord injury rehabilitation services to strengthen person-centred health care: protocol for a mixed methods study.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Article
- The role of clinical and demographic predictors for understanding the cognitive impairment in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) patients.Spinal cord · 2024Article
- Cognitive, behavioral and psychiatric symptoms in patients with spinal cord injury: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Predictors of quality of life of individuals living in Brazil with spinal cord injury/disease.Spinal cord · 2023Article
- Effects of restoration of cough via spinal cord stimulation on subject quality of life.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2022Article
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objectiveTo examine the association between physical and mental symptoms and cognition in people with spinal cord injury. Research Method/Design: One hundred seventy-four community-dwelling adults with spinal cord injury completed several self-reported measures of health-related quality of life (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System [PROMIS] Cognitive Abilities, Anxiety, Depression, Fatigue, and Pain Intensity) as well as a traditional neuropsychological assessment (six tests that included assessments of processing speed, working memory, memory, executive function, and attention). A series of multivariable linear regressions were used to test for associations between physical and mental symptoms and the seven ratings of cognition (i.e., scores on PROMIS Cognitive Abilities, as well as the six scores from the neuropsychological tests) after controlling for age, gender, education, and injury classification.
resultsThere was generally no association between symptom measures and neuropsychological test performance with one exception: Greater pain was associated with poorer performance on attention. However, anxiety and fatigue were associated with lower self-perceived cognitive function. Among those individuals with evidence of cognitive impairment in at least one cognitive domain, anxiety was also associated with lower working memory score, and fatigue was associated with lower delayed memory performance. CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS: While the associations between pain and cognitive performance are consistent with general literature, the absence of a relationship between other symptoms (i.e., depression and fatigue) and cognitive performance was somewhat more surprising. Similarly, the associations between anxiety and fatigue with perceived cognitive function are consistent with the general literature, yet the absence of a relationship with depression was somewhat more surprising. Future work is needed to replicate these findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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