1. Training professionals’ communication and motivation skills to improve spinal cord injury patients’ satisfaction and clinical outcomes: Study protocol of the ESPELMA trial
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Lucrecia-Ramírez-Garcerán, José A Navarro-Sanchís, Amanda Rodríguez-Urrutia, Ampar Cuxart-Fina, Pilar Lusilla-Palacios, Gemma Parramon-Puig, Sergi Valero-Ventura, and Carmina Castellano-Tejedor
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,education ,Rehabilitation Nursing ,Burnout ,Professional Competence ,Patient satisfaction ,Physical medicine and rehabilitation ,Clinical Protocols ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,Spinal cord injury ,Spinal Cord Injuries ,Applied Psychology ,Protocol (science) ,Motivation ,Rehabilitation ,business.industry ,Communication ,Psychological distress ,medicine.disease ,Patient Satisfaction ,Physical therapy ,Acute spinal cord injury ,business - Abstract
Acute spinal cord injury leaves patients severely impaired and generates high levels of psychological distress among them and their families, which can cause a less active role in rehabilitation, worse functional recovery, and less perceived satisfaction with the results. Additionally, rehabilitation professionals who deal with this psychological distress could ultimately experience higher stress and more risk of burnout. This article presents the study protocol of the ESPELMA project, aimed to train rehabilitation professionals in the clinical management of acute spinal cord injury–associated psychological distress, and to measure the impact of this training on the patients’ perceived satisfaction with treatment.
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- 2013
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