Comparison of the effectiveness of mindfulness with routine care on resilience ,quality of life and individual independence in patients with spinal cord injury

Determining the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction method on resilience, quality of life and individual independence of spinal cord injury patients referred to medical centers affiliated to Kerman University of Medical Sciences.

A randomized, double blinded, clinical trial design of 62 patients. Randomozation implemented by random function of Excel software.

Spinal cord injury patients referred to the rehabilitation centers of Kerman University of Medical Sciences were randomly divided into control and intervention groups. Patients, statistician, and the data control and safety monitoring committee are blinded to the group allocation.

Entry conditions: At least 12 weeks have passed since the onset of the disease and up to a maximum of 5 years ;these people are selected from the 18-year-old age group without any age limit ;The ability to communicate in Farsi ;Having a mobile phone with Android system; The patient has not participated in similar research in the last 3 months Non-entry conditions: Withdrawal of cooperation; Using psychotropic drugs, neuropsychiatric drugs and under the treatment of a psychiatrist; Previous experience of a similar intervention; Diseases associated with lesions in the studied sample

In this study, the intervention of MBSR (Mindfulness-based stress reduction) is conducted in 90-minute face-to-face sessions weekly in groups of 5-16 people or individually for 8 weeks. Group sessions are held for patients who have the possibility to attend rehabilitation centers. Individual sessions in the researcher's presence are held at the patients' homes. The control group includes patients with the same conditions except they receive only routine medical care at home.

resilience; quality of life; individual independence

According to the availability of the list of patients referred to two support centers, the list will be given to the statistician. The statistician who is blinded to the allocation codes to the groups, divides the 62 people with the dropout rate, into either the control or intervention group which is provided by Excel software.

The list is provided to the statistician, and he assigns people to each of the control and intervention groups according to the number of participants, which is 62 people including the dropout, using Excel software and without knowing the allocation of codes to the groups. In this study, statisticians, Data Safety and Monitoring Committee and patients will be blinded to the groups.