Appraisals and coping mediate the relationship between resilience and distress among significant others of persons with spinal cord injury or acquired brain injury: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Characteristics of significant others and persons with disabilities

	Total (n = 228)		SCI (n = 122)		ABI (n = 106)
*Significant others*	n	n(%) / mean (SD), range	n	n(%) / mean (SD), range	n	n(%) / mean (SD), range
Sex (female)	228	149 (65.4)	122	92 (75.4)*	106	57 (53.8)*
Age in years	224	54.1 (12.8), 23–82	120	54.4 (13.7), 25–82	104	53.9 (11.8), 23–75
Nationality (non-Dutch)	226	17 (7.5)	121	9 (7.4)	105	8 (7.5)
Education level (high)	223	86 (38.6)	118	41 (34.7)	105	45 (42.9)
Relationship with person with SCI/ABI (partner)	228	165 (72.4)	122	86 (70.5)	106	79 (74.5)
*Injury information*
Physical independence	218	34.6 (18.8), 0–70	120	27.7 (17.4), 0–70*	98	43.0 (17.0), 5–70*
Cause (non-traumatic)	227	154 (67.8)	122	65 (53.3)*	105	89 (84.8)*
AIS^a (SCI only)	─	─	121		─	─
	─	─	A	15 (12.4)	─	─
	─	─	B	18 (14.9)	─	─
	─	─	C	23 (19.0)	─	─
	─	─	D	65 (53.7)	─	─
Level/location injury	─	─	122		99
	─	─	Paraplegia	59 (48.4)	Left	41 (41.4)
	─	─	Tetraplegia	63 (51.6)	Right	35 (35.3)
	─	─	─	─	Both sides	18 (18.2)
	─	─	─	─	Brainstem	5 (5.1)

Note. SCI Spinal cord injury, ABI Acquired brain injury, SD Standard deviation, n Number of participants
*Independent samples t-test showed a difference in sex (t (209.0) = 3.5, p < .01), physical independence (t (209.2) = − 6.5, p < .001) and cause of injury (t (215.5) = 5.3, p < .001) between SCI and ABI. ^aAIS = American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale. A = complete; B = sensory incomplete; C = motor incomplete with less than half of key muscle functions below the single neurological level of injury having a muscle grade ≥ 3; D = motor incomplete with at least half of key muscle functions below the single neurological level of injury having a muscle grade ≥ 3 [33]

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