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Article reporting on a study of the relationship between the number of skin sores, and the number of days adversely impacted by skin sores, and multiple indicators of life adjustment after spinal cord injury (SCI). It was found that among the 1017 participants in the study both the number ...

Study examining relationships between self-reported barriers to employment after spinal cord injury (SCI) and two aging-related factors (age at injury onset and years since injury). Data are from 790 responses to a survey of 899 unemployed individuals with SCI. Findings indicate that both aging factors were related to increased ...

This article reviews methods for determining life expectancy in life care plans and critiques the strengths and limitations of each method. Statistical methods that use biographic and injury characteristics to modify estimates from standard life table, estimates based on clinical experience, and the use of standard life tables are ...

Subjects with preexisting spinal cord injury (SCI) participated in this study to identify the annual incidence and risk factors for subsequent injuries after SCI. Subjects were asked to report the number of injuries in the past year that were severe enough to require treatment in a clinic, emergency department, ...

Study examines the reasons unemployed persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) give for their jobless status and whether demographics is a determining factor in these beliefs. Questionnaire results were returned from 231 participants. Physical inability to perform job tasks was reason cited by 60% of participants for not working ...

Article about a study comparing the life adjustment of participants with spinal cord injury (SCI) who were either (a) gainfully employed, (b) unemployed but attending school, or (c) unemployed and not attending school. The Multidimensional Adjustment Profile (MAP) was administered to a sample of 362 participants. Multivariate analyses of ...

Study examined gender and racial and ethnic differences in subjective well-being, community participation, and self-reported general health ratings among 4 groups of participants with spinal cord injury: whites, African American, American Indians, and Hispanics. About 40 percent of the total sample was female. Participants completed measures of subjective well-being, ...

A mail survey was used to identify factors associated with the presence or absence of recurrent pressure ulcers among participants with spinal cord injury (SCI) who were at least 5 years postinjury. Of the 826 subjects who participated, 633 reported a history of pressure ulcers that could be classified ...

Study identified gender differences in subjective well-being among African Americans with spinal cord injury (SCI). Measures of subjective well-being included the Life Situation Questionnaire-Revised, the Purpose in Life Scale, and the Older Adult Health and Mood Questionnaire. Results showed that women reported higher scores on depressive symptoms and negative ...

Study investigated health disparities as a function of race and gender and the extent to which socioeconomic factors mediate disparities among people with spinal cord injury. Six outcomes were measured: self-rated health, poor physical health days in the past month, poor mental health days in the past month, number ...

Study examining clinical and nonclinical aspects of depression and subjective well-being (SWB) among a sample of Native Americans with spinal cord injury (SCI), including factors associated with depression and SWB. Data are from a health-related interview (with measures of depression and SWB) completed via telephone or mail by 97 ...

Study of health behaviors and health outcomes among a sample of Native American men with spinal cord injury (SCI). Data are from telephone interviews or mail surveys of 76 Native American men with traumatic SCI at least 1 year in duration. Comparisons were made to Native American men without ...

Study to identify risk factors for poor health outcomes and secondary conditions among Native Americans with spinal cord injury (SCI). Data are from comprehensive telephone interviews with 97 Native Americans with traumatic SCI at least 1 year post-injury. Seven outcome variables were examined: self-rated health; health status compared with ...

Study examined the impact of health, community integration and economic factors on subsequent mortality and life expectancy among people with spinal cord injury (SCI). Mortality was determined by routine follow-up of people with SCI enrolled in the National SCI Database and information from the Social Security Death Index. A ...

Study investigating the relation among aging, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic indicators, and depressive symptoms after spinal cord injury (SCI). Participants were 1,391 individuals with SCI age > 18 who completed a demographic survey and the Older Adult Health and Mood Questionnaire. Results indicate that depressive symptoms are common following SCI ...

Study describing the relationship of multiple biographical, injury-related, and educational factors to employment outcomes after spinal cord injury (SCI). Data were collected from 3,756 persons with SCI through 18 model SCI systems. Logistic regression analysis revealed significant effects of a number of factors, including race-ethnicity, violent etiology, sex, and ...

Article about the relationship of life adjustment after spinal cord injury (SCI) and 3 components of locus of control (LOC): internality, chance, and powerful others. Of the 127 study participants, those who were older at injury, had fewer years of education, or were from minority backgrounds reported less favorable ...

Article about a study identifying relationships between aging and long-term adjustment after spinal cord injury (SCI). The study aimed to isolate the influence of three factors: (1) chronological age, (2) time since injury, and (3) environmental change between different times of measurement (1985 and 1994). Two samples completed the ...

Article comparing employment outcomes after spinal cord injury (SCI) as a function of several important participant characteristics, including race, sex, age at injury, education, and geographical location (Southeastern US versus Midwestern US). Participants included 1032 individuals with SCI 596 from the Southeast and 435 from the Midwest. It was ...

Research on the benefits and costs of supported employment is reviewed. Article discusses the overall cost efficiency of supported employment programs, state variations in the costs, and the impact of the Home and Community Based Waiver on costs of supported employment.