Browse the latest research summaries in the field of public health for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2014 • January 1, 2014
The Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey (SCICS) in Canada comprehensively assessed needs, community participation, and quality of life among individuals with SCI. The survey identified significant dif...
KEY FINDING: Major expressed needs for services to support community living are met to a great extent for a substantial proportion of people with SCI.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2014 • January 1, 2014
The study explored the needs of people with long-standing SCI, including sources of help and support and barriers to meeting their needs. About two-thirds of expressed needs are met, but there's signi...
KEY FINDING: Most critical needs for community integration were expressed by a substantial proportion of survey participants.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2014 • January 1, 2014
This study investigates the employment participation of Canadians with SCI from a life course perspective, comparing young/middle-aged and older adults. It considers demographic, health, and social fa...
KEY FINDING: Close to one-third of participants with SCI were working post injury (32%), a decline from the 62% of respondents working prior to their injury.
JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA, 2015 • May 1, 2015
This study investigated the association between spinal cord injury (SCI) and the subsequent development of multiple sclerosis (MS) using a population-based, propensity score-matched, longitudinal foll...
KEY FINDING: Patients with SCI had an 8.33-fold higher risk of MS, compared with non-SCI subjects.
The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2017 • January 1, 2017
Assistive technology is essential to people with spinal cord injuries (SCI) for living and participating in their communities. However, many people with SCI do not have access to adequate assistive te...
KEY FINDING: GATE has worked with people around the world to help identify the 50 most essential assistive technologies (AT) to help people with disabilities.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2017 • March 1, 2017
This study investigated the equity of wheelchair provision to Veterans with SCI or AL, focusing on racial disparities and the influence of patient characteristics on wheelchair quality. The results in...
KEY FINDING: There were no significant racial differences in the quality of wheelchairs prescribed to African American and White veterans.
Injury Epidemiology, 2016 • September 7, 2016
This study describes the epidemiology of potential TSCI in Australia using a large, state-wide sample. Falling and traffic related injuries were the leading causes of potential SCI. Future research is...
KEY FINDING: The study included 106,059 cases, representing 2.3% of all emergency transports.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2015 • April 14, 2015
This study compared function and disability in TBI and SCI patients using the WHODAS 2.0, analyzing data from Taiwan’s national disability registry between September 2012 and August 2013. The findings...
KEY FINDING: Patients with TBI exhibited poorer cognition, self-care, relationships, life activities, and participation in society compared to those with SCI.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2015 • September 1, 2015
This study examined the relationship between the built environment and perceived health in a community-based sample of individuals with SCI, finding that greater land use heterogeneity was associated ...
KEY FINDING: Persons with SCI residing in communities with more (versus less) mixed land use were more likely to report poor perceived health.
JAMA, 2015 • June 9, 2015
This study analyzed national trends in acute traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) in the United States from 1993 to 2012 using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. The study found that the overall...
KEY FINDING: The incidence rate of acute traumatic spinal cord injury remained relatively stable between 1993 and 2012.