The efficacy of stress inculation training (SIT) on resilience, anxiety, depression and stress among spinal cord injury (SCI) patients

Introduction: Depression, anxiety and stress are common problems among spinal cord injury patients because of their routine problems in leading their life. So, the main aim of this study was determining the effect of stress inculation training (SIT) on the rate of resilience, anxiety, depression and stress in these patients. Materials and Methods: This is a quasi-experimental research on 32 spinal cord injury patients in Tehran. The type of their spinal cord injury was paraplegia and five year had passed from their spinal cord injury the cause of their injuries was car accident and their age ranged from 23 to 36 years. The patients were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. After the participants filled out the questionnaires of Conner Davidson and DASS-21, stress inculation training (SIT) was provided to educated to the experimental group for 8 sessions, each lasting 90 minutes. Then, both experimental and control groups complete the questionnaires again. The data were analyzed using Co-variance (Ancova). Results: The results showed that stress inculation training increased the resiliency among spinal cord injury patients (P0.048). Stress inculation training reduced the rate of depression (p0.046) and stress (P0.022) among spinal cord injury patients. However, stress inculation training did not change the rate of anxiety among spinal cord injury patients (P0.473). Conclusion: It is concluded that SIT plays an important role in increasing the rate of resiliency and reduces the rate of depression and stress among spinal cord injury patients