title: Individualised and health-related quality of life of persons with spinal cord injury.
abstract: METHODS
  Cross sectional.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine associations among functional status, health-related and individualised quality of life (QoL) and coping style in subjects with spinal cord injury (SCI).
  
  
  METHODS
  Italy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty subjects attending our hospital-based rehabilitation centre for SCI were administered the Spinal Cord Independence Measure-version III (SCIM-III), the Short Form-36 (SF-36), the Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual QoL-Direct Weighting (SEIQoL-DW) and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation (CISS) to assess functional status, health-related QoL, individualised QoL and coping strategies, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The SCIM-III scores were positively correlated (P<0.01) with the physical functioning subscale of the SF-36. The only scale that correlated (P<0.01) with the SEIQoL-DW scores was the SF-36 mental health subscale. Positive correlations among task-oriented or avoidance-oriented coping and specific measures of health-related QoL emerged.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Data from the present study showed only a few associations among different measures of QoL and suggest that patient-centered evaluations of QoL are not necessarily or strictly related to functional status or health-related QoL. Coping strategies seem to be significantly related to the subjects perceptions of QoL, but mostly in the health-related domains.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychology Unit, Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tramonti
authors.affiliation: Centre for Spinal Cord Injuries, Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gerini
authors.affiliation: Centre for Spinal Cord Injuries, Department of Neurosciences, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stampacchia
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology; D011788:Quality of Life; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012944:Social Support; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D055815:Young Adult