Depression, anxiety and stress of spinal cord injury patient who received group therapy at a rehabilitation center in Bangladesh

Abstract

Background: Spinal cord injury is a injury to the spinal cord that can be caused by traumatic or non- traumatic resulting a wide range of impairment,activity limitations and participation restrictions. Objectives: To find out mental health status effects of people with spinal cord injury after received of group therapy. Methodology: The study design was cross-sectional. A total of 102 samples were selected conveniently for this study from the centre for the rehabilitation of the paralyzed, spinal cord injury unit, at savar. Data was collected by using of structured questionnaire and mental health was assessed by Depression ,Anxiety and stress scale -21. The study was conducted by using quantitative description analysis through SPSS software 22.0 and Microsoft Excel 2016.Result: Among the respondents,most of them were male. Pareplegic patients were greater than tetraplegic patients and the amount were 52.5% was paraplegic and 47.5% was tetraplegic patients. Most of them have moderate depression level ,extremely severe anxiety and moderate stress level,which indicates their mental health status level .Conclussion: A significant portion of SCI patients were found to be moderate depressed because of including in a group therapy sessions. But the level of anxiety is extremely severe level among most of the patients after received group therapy . At the same time stress level was also moderate among those patients who received group therapy. Keywords: Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Spinal cord injury, Group therapy Total word count: 10,653