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ArticleSpinal cord2023

Bladder and bowel function effects on emotional functioning in youth with spinal cord injury: a serial multiple mediator analysis.

James W Varni, Kathy Zebracki, Miriam Hwang, Mary Jane Mulcahey, Lawrence C Vogel

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Article in Spinal cord, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

James W VarniDepartment of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. jvarni@tamu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-4357
Kathy ZebrackiShriners Children's Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Miriam HwangShriners Children's Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-4352
Mary Jane MulcaheyCenter for Outcomes and Measurement, Jefferson College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Physical Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Lawrence C VogelShriners Children's Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6325-441X
Northwestern University · USRush University Medical Center · USShriners Hospitals for Children - Chicago · USTexas College · USThomas Jefferson University · US

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Craig H. Neilsen Foundation 542021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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designPreliminary explanatory or mechanistic cross-sectional study.

objectivesThis preliminary cross-sectional study investigates the hypothesized serial mediating effects of bladder/bowel worry, social worry, and social participation in the relationship between bladder function or bowel function and emotional functioning in youth with spinal cord injury (SCI) from their perspective.

methodsThe Bladder Function, Bowel Function, Worry Bladder Bowel, Worry Social, and Social Participation Scales from the PedsQL™ Spinal Cord Injury Module and the Emotional Functioning Scale from the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales Short Form SF15 were completed by 127 youth with SCI ages 8-24. Serial multiple mediator model analyses were conducted to test the hypothesized sequential mediating effects of bladder/bowel worry, social worry, and social participation as intervening variables separately for the cross-sectional association between bladder function or bowel function and emotional functioning.

resultsThe separate cross-sectional negative association of bladder function and bowel function with emotional functioning were serially mediated by bladder/bowel worry, social worry and social participation, accounting for 28% and 31%, respectively, of the variance in youth-reported emotional functioning (p < 0.001), representing large effect sizes.

conclusionsIn this preliminary study, bladder/bowel worry, social worry, and social participation explain in part the cross-sectional negative association of bladder function and bowel function with emotional functioning in youth with SCI from the youth perspective. Identifying the hypothesized associations of bladder function and bowel function, bladder/bowel worry, social worry, and social participation with emotional functioning may help inform future clinical research and practice for youth with SCI.

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Spinal Cord InjuriesAdolescentCross-Sectional StudiesDefecationHumansQuality of LifeUrinary Bladder

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