| Objective: To investigate the disability acceptance and personality trait in patients with traumatic brain injury, and analyze the relationship between them, so as to provide a new perspective to improve the disability acceptance. Methods: 209 patients with traumatic brain injury were surveyed by the Acceptance of Disability Scale and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-revised-Short Scale for Chinese (EPQ-RSC). The levels of personality trait were compared among the groups with different levels of the disability acceptance, and the Pearson correlation analysis was used to explore the relationship between the personality trait and the disability acceptance in patients with traumatic brain injury. Results: The total score of disability acceptance was (160.11±34.58) in patients with traumatic brain injury, and 29.19% of them in the low level, 54.07% of them in the medium level, and 16.74% of them in the high level. The levels of psychoticism, neurocitism and dissimulation in personality trait were significantly higher than those in the normal population (P<0.01), and the levels of ex-traversion in personality trait were significantly lower than those in the normal population (P<0.01). There was significant difference in the score of each factor of personality trait in the traumatic brain injury patients with different levels of disability acceptance (P<0.05). Pearson correlation analysis revealed that the each factor of disability acceptance was significantly negatively correlated with the scores of psychoticism, neurocitism and dissimulation in personality trait (P<0.05), but significantly positively correlated with the score of ex-traversion in personality trait (P<0.05). Conclusions: The level of disability acceptance was in the medium level in traumatic brain injury patients, and it was closely related with personality trait. The nursing staff could start from the personality trait to improve the level of disability acceptance in traumatic brain injury patients. |
