Study of resilience in Brazilians with spinal cord injury.

OBJECTIVE

Evaluation the resilience of people with traumatic spinal cord injury using the CD-RISC-10 and the RS-14 Resilience Scale and correlated bio-sociodemographic variables with the resilience scales.

DESIGN

This is a quantitative, cross-sectional study with 254 adults.

METHODS

The data collection was performed on the Survey Monkey virtual platform using two resilience scales the CD-RISC-10 and the RS-14 Resilience Scale.

RESULTS

The results point to a sample with the majority of male. The average of the RS-14 responses was 81.7 and, in the CD- RISC-10 the average was twenty-eight, being the resilience considered as moderate. The results show correlation between the two resilience scales (p ≥ 0.001non-parametrictest of Kruskal-Wallis). No correlation found between resilience and sociodemographic variables such as: gender, income, injury classification, injury time and frequency in rehabilitation services.

CONCLUSION

The two scales were correlated, proving the consistency of the results. No relationship was found between resilience and bio sociodemographic variables.

CLINICAL RELEVANCE: to learn more about the aspects of spinal cord injury and provide better care to affected individuals.