Promoting community engagement in spinal cord injury research: a case example.

Community engagement is an important method of knowledge translation in spinal cord injury (SCI) research where researchers collaborate with people with lived experience, care partners, and other research users to improve the quality of research. This perspective article aims to promote community engagement in SCI research by describing useful resources for its implementation and providing an example project using the North American Spinal Cord Injury Consortium (NASCIC) process for such partnerships. Researchers from the Jefferson College of Rehabilitation Sciences' (JCRS) Center for Outcomes and Measurement engaged NASCIC to create an advisory committee composed of four people living with SCI to make recommendations for the methods of a large-scale study to develop a clinical outcome assessment.

Coaching-in-Context With Informal Maternal Care Partners of Children With Spinal Cord Injury.

Background: Coaching-in-Context (CinC) is a conversation-based process for working with people that draws on the tenets of positive psychology, is solution-focused and strength-based, and uses evidence-informed coaching techniques that create opportunities for clients to be at their best when engaging in the roles and activities that are desired, required, or expected of them.

Objectives: To explore the use of CinC with informal maternal care partners (mothers, grandmothers) of children with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Methods: This study was a multicenter, single group, pre-post treatment design.

Preliminary examination of Coaching in Context with clients with spinal cord injury.

Study Design: Repeated measures pilot study.

Objectives: This study examined Coaching in Context when introduced to community-dwelling adults with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting: Urban community.