association between depression and chronic complications in clients with traumatic spinal cord injury

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between depression and chronic complications, in clients with traumatic spinal cord injury (tsci). eight hundred and thirty traumatic spinal cord injury (tsci) patients were enrolled in this study. all cases filled up the valid and reliable persian version of the beck depression inventory (bdi). each patient was examined by a constant neurosurgeon, and a tsci research fellow to determine the level of injury, ais (asia impairment scale) grade, and chronic complications. eight hundred and thirty individuals participated in the study. mean spinal cord independence measure (scim) score was 57.5±20 in cases with bdi<10, while it was 57.2±15.6 in patients with 9