SCI Publications

Study examined the effects of unmet expectations of adjustment to chronic traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) on depressive symptoms. A total of 863 participants who survived at least 1 year postinjury were assessed at 2 time points separated by 10 years. Using a 10-point ladder (1 = worst and ...

Study examined the neurological and functional outcomes after thoracic spinal cord injury (SCI) through a retrospective analysis of data from the SCI Model Systems database for 661 subjects with initial neurological level of injury from T2–12. Two hundred sixty-five subjects had second neurological exams and 400 subjects had Functional ...

Study investigated the functional and topographic organization of compound evoked potentials induced by epidural stimulation. It was hypothesized that chronically implanted electrode arrays over the lumbosacral spinal cord can be used to assess functionally spinal circuitry linked to specific motor pools. Three individuals with complete motor paralysis of the ...

Study investigated whether a step training paradigm could improve outcome measures of locomotion, bladder function, and pain/allodynia, using a severe contusion model of spinal cord injury (SCI) in male rats. Animals were randomly divided into two equal groups: one group received quadrupedal step training 1 hour a day for ...

Article describes the development and psychometric properties of the Spinal Cord Injury-Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) Self-esteem item bank. Using a mixed-methods design, a self-esteem item bank was developed and tested through the use of focus groups with individuals with SCI and clinicians with expertise in SCI, cognitive interviews, and ...

Study used item response theory (IRT) methods to link scores from 2 recently developed functional outcome measures for people with spinal cord injury (SCI), the adult Spinal Cord Injury-Functional Index (SCI-FI) and the Pedi SCI (both the parent version and the child version). Linking was conducted so that the ...

Study determined which risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) are associated with increased carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), a common indicator of atherosclerosis, in women with spinal cord injury (SCI). One hundred twenty-two adult females with chronic SCI were evaluated. Participants were asymptomatic and without evidence of CVD. Measures collected ...

Study compared 12-year suicide-specific mortalities of 3 different injury cohorts, identified the risk factors for suicide mortality after spinal cord injury (SCI), and investigated whether suicide mortality is higher among those with SCI than in the general population. Data on suicide deaths were obtained from 31,399 participants injured between ...

Study examined racial and ethnic differences in self-care and mobility outcomes for people with a motor complete, traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) at discharge and 1-year follow-up. Participants were 1,766 adults with traumatic, motor complete SCI enrolled in the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems database between 2000 and 2011. ...

Article describes the development and calibration of the Spinal Cord Injury -- Quality of Life (SCI-QOL), a patient-reported outcomes measurement system for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). Specifically, the authors detail the methods and results of the five phases of the SCI-QOL development: (1) domain/subdomain selection, (2) item ...

Article describes the development and psychometric properties of the Spinal Cord Injury-Quality of Life (SCI-QOL) item bank and computer adaptive test (CAT) to assess the effects of stigma on health-related quality of life in individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). The project included grounded-theory based qualitative item development methods, ...

Study investigated whether demographic, injury, health, and functional factors similarly have the same predictive association with both somatic and nonsomatic symptoms of depression, and whether somatic and nonsomatic symptoms of depression have the same association with quality of life (QOL). One-year follow-up assessment data from 4,976 participants with traumatic ...

Study examined the relationship between community and neighborhood land uses and community participation among adults with acquired physical disability. Data were obtained from the national Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems (SCIMS) database for 508 community-living chronically disabled adults in New Jersey. The following four domains of participation were assessed ...

Study assessed national patterns of urologic follow-up after spinal cord injury (SCI) to determine how many received adequate surveillance and evaluated the occurrence and predictors of urological complications. The minimum adequate urologic surveillance was defined as: (1) a urologist visit, (2) serum creatinine evaluation, and (3) upper urinary tract ...

Study examined individual-level temporal changes in functional status for participants with paraplegia in the National Spinal Cord Injury Database (NSCID), as measured by Rasch-transformed Functional Independence Measure (FIM) motor scores. Non-linear random effects modeling, that is, individual growth curve analysis of retrospective data obtained from the NSCID. The authors ...

Study presents yearly aggregated summaries of rehabilitation outcomes at admission, discharge, and follow-up from a national sample of patients receiving inpatient medical rehabilitation for stroke, traumatic brain injury, lower-extremity fracture, lower-extremity joint replacement, traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI), or debility. Data were obtained from more than 300 inpatient rehabilitation ...

Study examined the additive effect of age on disability for adults with spinal cord injury (SCI). Data regarding demographics, injury and medical characteristics, independence in activities of daily living, and psychosocial well-being were collected from participants with SCI who were enrolled in the SCI Model Systems between 1988 and ...

Study examined the relationship between the type of mobility devices used and social participation in wheelchairs users who have spinal cord injuries (SCI). It was hypothesized that using wheelchairs with external power and driving a modified vehicle (MV), with or without driving in a wheelchair, facilitates social participation for ...

Study identified predictors of shoulder joint pain in people with paraplegia who used a manual wheelchair for at least 50 percent of their mobility and were asymptomatic for shoulder pain at study entry. Participants were classi?ed as having developed shoulder pain if they experienced an increase of 10 points ...

Study evaluated the responsiveness of the revised Capabilities of Upper Extremity-Questionnaire (CUE-Q), in which the item responses were reduced from seven to five levels, relative to the upper-extremity motor score (UEMS) and to the self-care subscale of Functional Independence Measure (FIMsc). A total of 46 subjects with acute traumatic ...