Implementing psychosocial guidelines into specialized spinal cord injury rehabilitation services to strengthen person-centred health care: protocol for a mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a severe neurological disorder resulting in loss of movement and altered sensation with lifelong impacts on health, function, and social integration. Multidisciplinary SCI rehabilitation primarily focuses on enhancing function and independence while simultaneously managing secondary health conditions and providing psychosocial support. Therefore, a major goal in SCI rehabilitation should be strengthening patients' capacity to cope with and adjust to challenges they encounter. Using a mixed methods design, the primary aim of this study is to integrate psychosocial guidelines that promote psychological adjustment into SCI rehabilitation, and second, to evaluate facilitators and barriers to their successful implementation.

Methods

To deter

SUBMITTER: McBain C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12009950 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature