Determinants of sustainable work participation after spinal cord injury in The Netherlands.

Purpose: Work participation of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) is lower compared to the overall Dutch population, with determinants largely unknown.

Aim: To identify the determinants of sustainable work participation for persons with SCI.

Methods: A cross-sectional multicenter study was conducted in eight Dutch rehabilitation centers.

Test-Retest Reliability and Agreement of the Work Ability Index-Single Item in Persons With Physical Disabilities.

Objective: To assess the test-retest reliability and agreement of the work ability index-single item (WAS) in persons with a physical disability.

Design: Test-retest study, with a 2-4 week interval. Test-retest reliability was computed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC).

Cognitive assessment during inpatient rehabilitation after spinal cord injury, a retrospective cross-sectional study.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Cognitive screening is underdeveloped in spinal cord injury (SCI). Therefore, the objectives of our study were: (1) to evaluate cognitive functioning of rehabilitation inpatients with recently acquired spinal cord injury (SCI) with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA); (2) to analyse associations between patient and lesion characteristics and the MoCA scores and (3) to compare the MoCA with the cognitive domain of the Utrecht scale for Evaluation of Rehabilitation (USER).

Relation between work hours, work control, work stress, and quality of life in persons with spinal cord injury.

Background: Work participation is related to a better quality of life (QoL) for people with spinal cord injury (SCI), however, the specific work characteristics that are related to QoL in people with SCI are largely unknown.

Objectives: To investigate which work characteristics are related to QoL in people with SCI.

Methods: Cross-sectional survey of people with SCI in the Netherlands.

Gender differences in participation one year after stroke: exploring biopsychosocial predictors for women and men.

Background: Women appear to have a higher risk for long term restrictions in participation than men. This gender difference is poorly understood, as solely biomedical factors have been examined to date.

Objectives: The aims of this study are (1) to map gender differences in participation outcome one year after stroke, and (2) to identify demographic, stroke-related, or psychological predictors of participation for women and men separately.

Use and experienced effectiveness of non-pharmacological treatments for chronic spinal cord injury related pain in The Netherlands: A cross-sectional survey.

Context/objective: Chronic pain is a common secondary condition in spinal cord injury (SCI). Pharmacological interventions to reduce pain are associated with side effects. The reported effects of non-pharmacological treatments are unclear.

Obesity in wheelchair users with long-standing spinal cord injury: prevalence and associations with time since injury and physical activity.

Study Design: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data from the ALLRISC cohort study.

Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of obesity and its association with time since injury (TSI) and physical activity (PA) in wheelchair users with long-standing (TSI > 10 years) spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting: Community, The Netherlands.

Correlates of physical activity in ambulatory people with spinal cord injury during the first year after inpatient rehabilitation.

Study Design: Longitudinal cohort study.

Objectives: Examine the longitudinal association between mobility and level of physical activity (PA) and explore which other factors are also associated with level of PA in ambulatory people with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) during the first-year post-inpatient rehabilitation.

Setting: Three SCI-specialized rehabilitation centers and the Dutch community.

Reciprocal association between pain and quality of life after newly acquired spinal cord injury.

Purpose: Pain is highly prevalent in spinal cord injury (SCI) and a key determinant of quality of life (QoL). This is the first study to examine reciprocal associations between pain and QoL in patients undergoing their first inpatient rehabilitation after SCI.

Methods: Longitudinal data, with three measurement time points (1 month and 3 months after SCI onset, and at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation) from the Inception Cohort of the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study.

Associations between personality traits and depressive and anxiety symptoms among persons with spinal cord injury in first inpatient rehabilitation.

Study Design: Retrospective analysis of medical records.

Objective: To assess personality traits in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) and compare these with the general population group. Moreover, to explore associations between personality traits and depressive and anxiety symptoms among persons with SCI in first inpatient rehabilitation.

Validation of the AO Spine CROST (Clinician Reported Outcome Spine Trauma) in the clinical setting.

Purpose: To evaluate feasibility, internal consistency, inter-rater reliability, and prospective validity of AO Spine CROST (Clinician Reported Outcome Spine Trauma) in the clinical setting.

Methods: Patients were included from four trauma centers. Two surgeons with substantial amount of experience in spine trauma care were included from each center.

Effect of Training for an Athletic Challenge on Illness Cognition in Individuals with Chronic Disability: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Illness cognitions (IC) influence how a patient adapts to a chronic disease. The aim was (1) to determine if training for a handcycling mountain time trial (HandbikeBattle) improves IC and (2) to identify factors associated with IC change scores. Persons with a chronic disability (N = 220; including N = 151 with spinal cord disorder) trained 5 months and participated in the time trial.

Relationship between employment and quality of life and self-perceived health in people with spinal cord injury: an international comparative study based on the InSCI Community Survey.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Work-related disability is common in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). The aims of this study are to examine the associations of employment with self-perceived health (SPH) and quality of life (QoL) across 22 countries and to explore the covariates around employment and SPH and QoL.

The social dimension of quality of life following spinal cord injury or disease: an international ICF-linking study.

Study Design: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) linking study.

Objective: Analyze cognitive interview data using the ICF as an analytic framework, to examine aspects of social life relevant to quality of life (QoL) according to people with spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D). This study builds upon results of an international study about the cross-cultural validity of the International SCI QoL Basic Data Set (QoL-BDS).

Does the disposition of passive coping mediate the association between illness perception and symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with spinal cord injury during first inpatient rehabilitation?

Purpose: To examine associations between illness perception, also called illness cognitions or appraisals, disposition of passive coping, and symptoms of anxiety and depression, and to test whether passive coping mediates the associations between illness perception and symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Materials And Methods: Longitudinal, multicentre study. Participants were inpatients of spinal cord injury (SCI) rehabilitation.

Quality of life from the patient perspective at the end of the first rehabilitation after the onset of spinal cord injury/disorder - A qualitative interview-based study.

Context: At present, there is a lack of information concerning patients' perspectives on their quality of life (QoL) after a recently acquired spinal cord injury/disorder (SCI/D).

Objective: To explore patients' perspectives on their QoL during their first inpatient rehabilitation after the onset of SCI/D.

Methods: Qualitative study.

Relationships between cardiovascular disease risk, neuropathic pain, mental health, and autonomic function in chronic spinal cord injury.

Study Design: Multicentre, cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To determine if clinical measures of poor mental health (MH-) and neuropathic pain (NP) are related to increased CVD risk in individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI), and further elucidate the relationships between CVD risk, autonomic function, NP, and MH-.

Setting: Eight SCI rehabilitation centres in the Netherlands.

Changes in bladder emptying during inpatient rehabilitation after spinal cord injury and predicting factors: data from the Dutch Spinal Cord Injury Database.

Study Design: Secondary analysis of multicentre prospective observational data.

Objectives: To describe methods of bladder emptying at admission and discharge in patients with recently acquired spinal cord injury (SCI) and to describe predictors of bladder emptying methods at discharge.

Setting: First inpatient rehabilitation in specialised rehabilitation centres in the Netherlands.

Changes in body satisfaction during and after a 5-month handcycle training period and associations with physical capacity and body composition in individuals with a physical impairment.

Purpose: To investigate: (1) changes in body satisfaction during five months of handcycle training and one year after the training period; (2) whether longitudinal changes are dependent on sex, waist circumference and severity of the physical impairment; (3) associations between changes in physical capacity or body composition, and body satisfaction.

Materials And Methods: Individuals ( = 143) with health conditions such as spinal cord injury filled out the Adult Body Satisfaction Questionnaire: at the start of the training (T1), directly after the training period (T2); and four months (T3) and one year after the training period (T4). At T1 and T2, physical capacity was determined with an upper-body graded exercise test, and waist circumference was measured.

Development of the self-regulation assessment and content validation using cognitive interviews in a multicultural post-rehabilitation population.

Aim: Self-regulation is one of the main goals of medical rehabilitation. Four themes of self-regulation were identified by former patients and rehabilitation physicians in a previous study. Based on these themes, a measure for self-regulation, the self-regulation assessment (SeRA), was developed.

Responsiveness of the International Spinal Cord Injury Quality of Life Basic Data Set V2.0: An international longitudinal study.

Context/objective: Examine the sensitivity of the International Spinal Cord Injury Quality of Life Basic Data Set V2.0 (QoL-BDS V2.0) to reflect changes in mobility and secondary health conditions (SHCs) between inpatient rehabilitation and one-year follow-up.

International spinal cord injury socio-demographic basic data set (version 1.0).

Study Design: Consensus based on the literature.

Objective: Create an International Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Socio-Demographic Basic Data Set (Version 1.0).

Participation in daily life activities at two months after stroke predicts long-term health-related quality of life.

Background: After stroke, many patients experience problems with participation in daily activities. Improving participation is the main goal in stroke rehabilitation. However, the longitudinal relationship between participation and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) remains unclear.

Health professionals' perspective on the applicability of AO Spine PROST (patient reported outcome Spine trauma) in people with a motor-complete traumatic or non-traumatic spinal cord injury.

Purpose: The AO Spine PROST (Patient Reported Outcome Spine Trauma) was developed for people with spine trauma and minor or no neurological impairment. The purpose is to investigate health professionals' perspective on the applicability of the AO Spine PROST for people with motor-complete traumatic or non-traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI), using a discussion meeting and international survey study.

Methods: A discussion meeting with SCI rehabilitation physicians in the Netherlands was performed, followed by a worldwide online survey among the AO Spine International community, involved in the care of people with SCI.

Relationship between secondary health conditions and life satisfaction in persons with spinal cord injury: study across twenty-one countries.

Purpose: To determine the relationships between impact of secondary health conditions (SHCs), treatment of SHCs, and life satisfaction (LS) following spinal cord injury (SCI) across 21 countries. Hypotheses were as follows: (1) Persons with SCI and fewer SHCs report higher LS and (2) Persons who receive treatment for SHCs report higher LS than those who do not receive treatment.

Methods: Cross-sectional survey, including 10,499 persons with traumatic or non-traumatic SCI aged 18 years or older and living in the community.