Correlation between alexithymia and disability acceptance in patients with spinal cord injury / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the influencing factors of disability acceptance in patients with spinal cord injury, and analyze the correlation between alexithymia and disability acceptance.Methods:The convenience sampling method was used to select 276 patients with spinal cord injury admitted to Affiliated Hospital of Jining Medical College from October 2018 to June 2020 as the research objects. The general information questionnaire, the Toronto Alexitymia Scale (TAS-20), and the Acceptance of Disability Scale (ADS) was used to conduct the survey, Pearson correlation was used to analyze the correlation between alexitymia and disability acceptance in patients with spinal cord injury, hierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze the factors that affect the disability acceptance of patients with spinal cord injury.Results:The total score of ADS of 276 patients with spinal cord injury was (172.68 ± 37.72) points, and the total score of TAS-20 was (55.60 ± 9.49) points. The results of Pearson correlation analysis showed that all dimensions and total score of TAS-20 were negatively correlated with all dimensions and total score of ADS ( r values were -0.821--0.101, all P<0.05). The results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that gender, course of disease, post-injury working status were the risk factors of disability acceptance ( P<0.05), and alexithymia was the protective factor of disability acceptance( P<0.05), gender, course of disease, post-injury working status and alexithymia level could jointly explain the 22.1% variation in disability acceptance in patients with spinal cord injury. Conclusions:The disability acceptance of patients with spinal cord injury is at a moderate level, and alexitymia is negatively correlated with disability acceptance. alexitymia, gender, course of disease, and post-injury work status are the influencing factors of disability acceptance of patients with spinal cord injury.