Publications by authors named "Philip A Edles"
Context: Having dependable attendant care is essential to the health and well-being of those most severely impacted by a spinal cord injury (SCI). Our objective was to identify how often people with SCI who require assistance for transfers either spend a full day in bed or all night in a wheelchair because they do not have paid or unpaid assistance.
Findings: Of the 918 respondents, 319 (34.
Background: The effects of race-ethnicity on the use of paid and unpaid caregivers for those with spinal cord injury (SCI) have received little attention in the literature.
Objective: Compare the amount of paid and unpaid caregiver hours received and sources of caregiving between non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Black participants with SCI, controlling for demographic, injury-related, and economic variables.
Methods: Participants were identified from a large specialty hospital.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of injury perceptions and hope for recovery with life satisfaction, purpose in life, and depressive symptoms measured during inpatient rehabilitation after spinal cord injury (SCI).
Method: Participants included adults hospitalized for SCI inpatient rehabilitation (N = 208), each of whom completed a modified version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire and three outcome measures: the Purpose in Life Scale, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the abbreviated version of the Patient Health Questionnaire.
Results: Principal components analysis indicated an SCI perceptions factor regarding severity, permanence, and cure control of SCI, and a second factor related to hope for recovery.