The purpose of this study is to examine the usefulness of the Grief Recovery Method in assisting persons with spinal cord injuries to achieve as complete a recovery as possible, thereby allowing for fuller participation in life.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
8
The Grief Recovery Method is a structured process designed to help people with spinal cord injuries examine their knowledge of their injury, their emotional reaction to their injury, and their ability to acknowledge their grief over the injury in order to learn techniques to resolve the grief in order to achieve a more complete recovery. Participants will attend a total of 18 sessions, some one-on-one, and some in a group setting. The Grief Recovery Handbook, handouts, DVD (digital video disc) presentations and questionnaires will be used. Targeted activities to decrease isolation and assist volunteers to identify goals for recovery will be utilized.
WRHA Health Sciences Centre Rehabilitation Hospital
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
RECRUITINGImpact of Event Scale
A self-administered questionnaire with 22 questions designed to measure the subjective response to a specific traumatic event (for this study, the event is the spinal cord injury).
Time frame: At Sessions 1 and 18. (Baseline and month 4)
Modified Grief Inventory
A self-reported 2-part questionnaire that asks the volunteer to circle responses to questions about past behavior and present feelings about their spinal cord injury.
Time frame: At Sessions 1and 18 (baseline and month 4).
The Coping with Health Injuries and Problems
A 32-question self-reported scale that measures coping with illness.
Time frame: At sessions 1 and 18 (Baseline and month 4)
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