Quality of Life and Physical Activity of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.
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SUBMITTER: Filipcic T
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Project description:ObjectivesTo describe the 3-month prevalence and correlates of self-reported physical health conditions in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) worldwide.Study designMultinational cross-sectional survey.SubjectsCommunity-living persons with traumatic or non-traumatic SCI aged >18 years from 21 countries representing all the 6 World Health Organization regions.MethodsThe study used data from 11,058 participants in the International SCI Community Survey (InSCI). The survey, based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Core Sets for SCI, was conducted in 2017-19 simultaneously in the participating countries. The health conditions were reported on a modified version of the SCI Secondary Conditions Scale.ResultsOverall, 95.8% of the participants reported having experienced 1 or more health problems secondary to SCI. Having pain was the most prevalent problem (77.3%), followed by spasticity/muscle spasms (73.5%) and sexual dysfunction (71.3%), and the least prevalent was respiratory problems (28.8%). The participants reported a mean of 7.4 concurrent health conditions. Unmet healthcare needs, being a smoker, being a female, having a complete lesion, and a traumatic injury exhibited significant associations with comorbidity.ConclusionPhysical health problems secondary to SCI are extremely common worldwide and demand investment in appropriate management, medical care and preventative measures.
| S-EPMC9272839 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Study design:Cross-sectional study. Background:Sleep disturbances are frequently reported by individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and are associated both with poor quality of life and reduced ability to participate in rehabilitation and daily life activities. Objectives:This study investigated sleep quality based on self-reports and actigraphy in individuals with SCI as compared to able-bodied. We also explored the relationship between sleep quality, physical activity, and neuropathic pain. Setting:Institute Guttmann, Neurorehabilitation Hospital, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain. Methods:Fourteen SCI patients (12 males, 43.10?±?10.59?y.o.) and 10 healthy individuals (7 males, mean age 46.21?±?12.58?y.o.) were enrolled in the study. Participants wore wrist actigraphs for 7 consecutive days to characterize their sleep-wake cycle, rest-activity circadian rhythm and physical activity. Sleep quality, chronotype, daytime sleepiness, neuropathic pain severity and interference were assessed based on questionnaires. Results:SCI individuals reported poorer sleep quality compared to healthy individuals. Actigraphy-based sleep measurements revealed that patients woke up later, spent more time in bed and slept longer compared to the healthy controls but did not differ significantly in the estimated sleep efficacy and number of awakenings from the able-bodied controls. In individuals with SCI greater physical activity predicted higher sleep efficacy and less awakening episodes as well as shorter sleep latency and lower sleep disturbance. Conclusions:The actigraphy-based sleep estimates indicate that patients with SCI spent more time in bed and slept longer but their sleep efficacy was similar to able-bodied controls. Maintaining regular physical activity could improve pain control and sleep quality.
| S-EPMC6341092 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Spinal cord injury (SCI) has a significant impact on the quality of life (QoL) of affected patients. The aim of this review was to determine whether colostomy formation improves QoL in patients with SCI. The Cochrane Register, MEDLINE, Embase and CINAHL were searched using medical subject headings. The search was extended to the reference lists of identified studies, ClinicalTrials.gov and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry. All clinical trials that included spinal injury and QoL, time spent on bowel care, and patient satisfaction with stoma were assessed. A total of 15 studies were found (including 488 patients with a stoma), of which 13 were retrospective cross-sectional studies and two were case-control studies, one of which was prospective research. Nine of 11 studies focusing on QoL reported that patients' QoL was improved by the stoma, whereas the remaining two studies found no difference. Time spent on bowel care was significantly reduced in all 13 studies that considered this outcome, with patients reducing the average time spent on bowel care from more than 1 h to less than 15 min per day. All 12 studies assessing patient satisfaction with their stoma reported high patient satisfaction. Stoma formation improves QoL, reduces time spent on bowel care, and increases independence. Stoma is an option that could be discussed and offered to patients with spinal cord injury.
| S-EPMC7709367 | biostudies-literature
Project description:IntroductionSpinal cord injury (SCI) in infancy magnifies the complexity of a devastating diagnosis. Children injured so young have high incidences of scoliosis, hip dysplasia, and respiratory complications leading to poor health and outcomes. We report the medical history, progression of rehabilitation, usual care and activity-based therapy, and outcomes for a child injured in infancy. Activity-based therapy (ABT) aims to activate the neuromuscular system above and below the lesion through daily, task-specific training to improve the neuromuscular capacity, and outcomes for children with acquired SCI.Case presentationA 3-month-old infant suffered a cervical SCI from a surgical complication with resultant tetraplegia. Until age 3, her medical complications included scoliosis, kyphosis, and pneumonia. Even with extensive physical and occupational therapy, she was fully dependent on caregivers for mobility and unable to roll, come to sit, sit, stand or walk. She initiated ABT at ~3 years old, participating for 8 months. The child's overall neuromuscular capacity improved significantly, especially for head and trunk control, contributing to major advances in respiratory health, novel engagement with her environment, and improved physical abilities.DiscussionFrom injury during infancy until 3 years old, this child's health, abilities, and complications were consistent with the predicted path of early-onset SCI. Due to her age at injury, severity and chronicity of injury, she demonstrated unexpected, meaningful changes in her neuromuscular capacity during and post-ABT associated with improved health, function and quality of life for herself and her caregivers.
| S-EPMC7064539 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Introduction:Despite adequate inpatient rehabilitation, a number of spinal cord injury (SCI) individuals suffer from difficulties at home and in their local environments. This is mainly prevalent in low-middle-income countries (LMIC) due to a lack of qualified personal caregivers. This issue could be addressed with the help of telehealth technology, which may be used in LMICs without economic concerns. Case presentations:A 44-year-old male with C3 AIS C SCI and a 35-year-old female with T12 AIS A SCI were discharged after successful rehabilitation from a tertiary care spinal center. The patients demonstrated gradual loss in their independence, which was evident by monitoring their home activities biweekly for 4 weeks via a combination of telephone calls, live video chat, and WhatsApp. Subsequently after 4 weeks of consistent guidance, pre-post scores after teletherapy were analyzed for the self-care and mobility subcomponents of the self-reported SCIM III. Discussion:After consistent supervised guidance via telehealth, self-care scores improved in the C3 AIS C case from 3 to 15 and in the T12 AIS A case from 4 to 15, while mobility scores respectively improved from 14 to 27 and 4 to 16. Identification of individual competencies, performance, and capacity in activities of daily living and participation, self-assessment, caregiver training, and home integration contributed toward successful community integration. This case series documents the benefits of using telehealth and home goal planning in the aftercare of SCI individuals, in order to improve quality of life in their local environment.
| S-EPMC6786311 | biostudies-literature
Project description:PurposeComplaints from spinal cord injury (SCI) patients are typically related to physical disability affecting activities of daily life. However, difficulties with voiding and defecation and/or sexual function can also be major concerns. The general population and even physicians are generally unaware of these complaints; therefore, this study focuses on surveying SCI patients regarding challenges that are faced in daily life.MethodsA questionnaire was administered randomly and anonymously to SCI patients who visited the Korea Spinal Cord Injury Association and several rehabilitation hospitals in the Republic of Korea in 2013. All participants gave their consent prior to filling out the questionnaire.ResultsA total of 299 patients answered the questionnaire; the male to female ratio was 5.8:1 and common vectors for injury were motor vehicle accidents, industrial accidents, and falling down. Of the 169 patients who answered the 'most troublesome' and 'wish would improve' complaints questionnaire properly, urinary problems were most common, specifically incontinence and urinary tract infection. Among all patients, 67% were using clean intermittent catheterization, 63% were taking voiding-related medications, 83% had sexual desires, and among the 122 patients who did not have offspring, 27% had future plans for children.ConclusionsFrom this questionnaire, we discovered that SCI patients in the South Korea suffer not only from physical disability but also many other quality-of-life-related problems. When managing SCI patients, physicians should show greater concern and educate patients about problems related to voiding and sexual activity, rather than just physical disability.
| S-EPMC5209570 | biostudies-literature
Project description:The objective of the current work was to examine the relationships between quality of life (QOL) domains in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) and their levels of weekly leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), anthropometric variables, and body composition variables. This exploratory cross-sectional study consisted of baseline data collected as part of a randomized clinical trial at a VA Medical Center and SCI center. A convenience sample of 36 community-dwelling persons with SCI participated in the current study. Outcome measures included the World Health Organization Quality of Life Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF), Leisure-Time Physical Activity Questionnaire for People with Spinal Cord Injury (LTPAQ-SCI), anthropomorphic measures (waist, hip, and abdominal circumference), and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to quantify regional and total body composition. Multiple regression models suggested that engagement in LTPA accounted for 35.7% of the variance in physical health QOL, 33.5% in psychological QOL, 14.2% in social relationships QOL, and 38.2% in environmental QOL. Anthropometric measures accounted for 11.3%, 3.1%, 12.0%, and 6.7% of the variance in these QOL indices, respectively, and DXA indices accounted for 18.7%, 17.5%, 27.4%, and 21.9%. Within these models, the number of minutes of heavy LTPA per day uniquely predicted physical health QOL, the number of mild LTPA days per week uniquely predicted psychological QOL, and the amount of mild LTPA per day uniquely predicted environmental QOL. Bivariate analyses also suggested that android and trunk fat, as well as supine waist and abdominal circumferences, were positively associated with social relationships QOL. Encouraging individuals with SCI to engage in LTPA may robustly enhance multiple aspects of QOL while reducing the risk for cardiovascular and metabolic morbidities associated with SCI. Moreover, this may lead to a further understanding of how QOL may impact longitudinal intervention trials. The study protocol and procedures were reviewed and approved by the McGuire VA Research Institutional Review Board (IRB# 02152, approval date August 9, 2015; IRB# 02375, approval date May 2, 2018).
| S-EPMC8643047 | biostudies-literature
Project description:STUDY DESIGN: Systematic review. STUDY RATIONALE: According to current estimates, there are more than 1 million people living with a spinal cord injury (SCI) in the United States alone. Given the potentially devastating impact of SCI on health-related quality of life (QoL), we sought to gain an improved understanding of QoL outcomes in SCI. OBJECTIVE: To identify and describe common QoL outcomes measures in patients with SCI. METHODS: A systematic review of the English-language literature was undertaken for articles published from 1998 through December 2010. Electronic databases and reference lists of key articles were searched to identify measures or indices used to evaluate QoL outcomes in patients with SCI. The titles and abstracts of the SCI peer-reviewed literature were searched to determine which of these outcome measures were most commonly used to evaluate QoL in patients with SCI. RESULTS: We identified 27 outcome measures used to evaluate QoL in patients with SCI. In SCI literature, the six most commonly used objective outcome measures were the Short-form 36 (SF-36); Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique (CHART); Short-form 12 (SF-12); Sickness Impact Profile (SIP68); Reintegration to Normal Living Index (RNL); and Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ). The six subjective measures that were most frequently used were the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS); Quality of Life Index (QLI); Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (LISAT-9/-1); World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF scale (WHOQOL-BREF); Perceived Quality of Life (PQOL); and global QoL. All six objective measures have been validated in an SCI population, and four of the six subjective measures have been similarly validated. Three of each of the objective and subjective measures have been reliability tested in a population with SCI. CONCLUSION: In addition to neurological and functional changes after SCI, QoL outcomes should be routinely assessed. Choice of appropriate QoL measure should be influenced by the study objectives and design, as well as the psychometric properties of the particular measure within the context of SCI.
| S-EPMC3427971 | biostudies-other
Project description:BACKGROUND:Experiencing a lower limb amputation (LLA) or spinal cord injury (SCI) is a life-changing event, affecting physical and systemic function as well as having psychological and social impacts. However, the severity of the physical impairment and/or motor disability demonstrates a poor relationship with patient-reported quality of life, suggesting that other factors determine such outcomes. As such, holistic health-related quality of life (QoL) assessment is an important tool to monitor long-term outcomes. While there are some studies that have assessed the influence of variables such as age at time of injury occurrence and time since injury on changes in QoL, there are no systematic reviews which synthesise this evidence. METHODS/DESIGN:All follow-up study designs will be included, where data from multiple time points are presented. Searches will target both SCI and LLA populations where a validated measure of QoL has been used: Medical Outcome Study Short-Form 36/12 or the World Health Organization Quality of Life instruments 100 and BREF. Studies must include adult participants (??18?years at time of injury) and detail time since injury event and patient age. The primary objective is to establish the effects of participant age and time since injury on QoL scores. Secondary objectives include determining between-group effects (i.e. LLA vs. SCI). We will search PubMed, Embase and Web of Science databases, supplemented by hand-searching references within existing review articles and experimental studies. Reviewer pairs will conduct screening and quality assessment of included papers. Results will be stratified by impairment, QoL tool, age/time since injury and additional variables such as sex, race, comorbidity or disease aetiology, as appropriate. If sufficient high-quality data exist, a meta-analysis will be conducted. DISCUSSION:The results of this systematic review will summarise evidence of how QoL changes across the life course, relative to both patient age and time since injury, for both LLA and SCI populations. By enabling a direct comparison of different chronic conditions, disability-specific differences in QoL changes over the life course can be identified. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION:PROSPERO CRD42018096633 .
| S-EPMC6676595 | biostudies-literature
Project description:IntroductionAfter spinal cord injury (SCI), individuals are typically considered by the general public to be asexual. Handicapped women have more problems with socio-sexual adaptation, stemming from low self-confidence, low self-esteem, and the absence of spontaneity.AimsTo determine changes in the sexual lives of women after SCI.MethodsA self-constructed questionnaire was used to map sexual function after SCI. We retrospectively compared sexual function in 30 women with SCI with that in 30 without SCI who led an active sexual life. Descriptive and inductive statistics were applied using the Student paired and non-paired t-tests and the Levene test.Main outcome measuresThe main variables were presence vs absence of sexual dysfunction in a group of women after SCI and a comparison of the incidence of sexual dysfunctions in women after SCI with that of a control group.ResultsA significant difference was ascertained in women with SCI in sexual desire (P < .001), lubrication (P < .001), and reaching orgasm before and after injury (P = .030). A comparison of the two groups showed a significant difference in the realization of coital sexual activity (P < .001), erotogenous zones of the mouth (P = .016), nipples (P = .022), and genitals (P < .001), and in the ability to reach orgasm (P = .033). The negative impact of incontinence on the sexual life of women with SCI proved significant (P < .001). Negative factors for sexual activity in women with SCI were lower sensitivity in 16 (53%), spasms and mobility problems in 12 (40%), lower desire in 11 (36%), pain in 4 (13%), and a less accommodating partner in 3 (10%).ConclusionIntercourse was the preferred sexual activity in women with SCI. Compared with the period before injury, there was significant lowering of sexual desire, impaired lubrication, and orgasmic ability after SCI. A comparison of the two groups showed a difference in erotogenous zones and in reaching orgasm. Sramkova T, Skrivanova K, Dolan I, et al. Women's Sex Life After Spinal Cord Injury. Sex Med 2017;5:e255-e259.
| S-EPMC5693454 | biostudies-literature