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Published 07/17/2007 | Quality of life | Rating:

Why are tetraplegic patients content?

Objective: To assess the effects of spinal cord injury (SCI)on perceived health-related quality of life (QOL).

Background: SCI is physically disabling, socially handicapping,and romantically limiting. Nevertheless, little is known aboutpost-SCI neurocognitive and psychosocial life. Better understandingof the cognitive and emotional worlds of SCI patients is essentialto better address and meet their needs and expectations.

» Quality of Life: What's Important

Published 08/18/2005 | Quality of life | Rating:

Researchers have much data showing that people with spinal cord injuries have a high quality of life. Many people are surprised by this. "How can spinal cord injury survivors have all the problems they do with their health, their finances, their mobility and independence, and with getting jobs and personal care assistants, and still claim that they are happy and their quality of life is good?" they ask. "How can everything seem so good when compared to others, things are so bad?"

» Book: Roll Models, by Richard Holicky

Published 01/2/2005 | Quality of life , Community Living | Rating:

Why do some spinal cord injury survivors succeed after injury and others spiral into inactivity and depression? Richard Holicky, himself a survivor, profiles 53 people and comes up with answers.

Roll Models is a valuable new resource for recently injured people and their families, and for nurses, therapists, psychologists and all other professionals who treat, work with and care for people with spinal cord injury.

» Bladder management and quality of life after spinal cord injury.

Published 10/5/2003 | Quality of life | Unrated

Fifty-three individuals with SCI who required assistance for bowel and bladder management were matched case for case on age, education, sex, race, and lesion level with 53 subjects with SCI and independent control of bowel and bladder. Outcome measures included the Satisfaction With Life Scale, the Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique (CHART), and the SF-12.

» Life Satisfaction Among Persons with Spinal Cord Injuries

Published 07/13/2000 | Quality of life | Unrated

Every year, approximately 10,000 persons in the United States, typically young adults (New Mobility, 1996), seriously injure their spinal cords and become permanently paralyzed.