Priorities of Spinal Cord Injured Population – A Survey

Namrata; Shazia Mattu

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Priorities of Spinal Cord Injured Population – A Survey

Namrata, Shazia Mattu

Published in American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 6, Issue 6)

Received: 22 May 2016 Accepted: 4 February 2017 Published: 19 December 2017

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Abstract

In the united states alone, there are more than 200,000 individuals living with a chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). Healthcare for these individuals creates a significant economic burden for the country, not to mention the physical, psychological, and social suffering these people endure every day. Regaining partial function can lead to greater independence, thereby improving quality of life. To ascertain what functions are most important to the SCI population, in regard to enhancing quality of life, a novel survey was performed in which subjects were asked to rank seven functions in order of their importance to their quality of life. The aim of present study was to evaluate the priorities of spinal cord injured population depending on their level of lesion and improvement of which function will make improvement in quality of their life. A total number of 71 subjects were taken. The questionnaire was made to be filled by all the participants through personal interview, Emails and telephonic interviews. There was a significant variation in priorities of spinal cord injured population.

Published in	American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 6, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajap.20170606.17
Page(s)	183-187
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2017. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Quality of Life, Spinal Cord Injury, Priorities

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Department of Physiotherapy, College of Applied Education and Health Sciences, Meerut, India
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Department of Physiotherapy, College of Applied Education and Health Sciences, Meerut, India

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