PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING INDIVIDUALS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY IN INDIA

Abstract

Background: The promotion of participation in major life domains such as education, employment and community life is important, yet challenging, in people with physical condition such as spinal cord injury.⁴

Objective. The purpose of this study was to assess the participation levels of community dwelling individuals with SCI in India. To co- relate the effect of age, gender education, partner status time since injury, injury, injury severity SCI etiology on participation level of community dwelling individuals with SCI in India.

Design: The design of study is cross-sectional population-based survey study.

Subjects. Eighty community of SCI individuals were recruited.

Methods. It was done in 2 phases: data collection, filling questionnaire and data analysis.

Results. On comparison of PART-O score between different age groups. Significant difference was found between participation of age group 16-30. No significant difference was seen on comparing PART-O score with injury severity (p <0.373)

Limitations. Sample size was small to establish several relationships future research with large sample size may help to clearly establish the impact of each parameter on the participation score.

Conclusions. The results of this study conclude that there is significant impact of age and level of lesion on the participation score c-d individuals with SCI.

Keywords: spinal cord injury (SCI), Participation Assessment with Recombined Tools Objective (PART-O), American Spinal Cord Injury Association (ASIA), Traumatic brain injury (TBI).