PMID: 9554021Apr 29, 1998Paper

Comparison of health-related quality of life in three subgroups of spinal cord injury patients

Spinal Cord
M KannistoH Sintonen

Abstract

Health-related quality of life (HRQL) was evaluated in three subgroups of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients: (1) persons who had sustained a pediatric SCI (mean time from injury 20 years, age at injury 11.3 years, n = 36), (2) newly injured patients at the beginning of acute rehabilitation (mean age 35.3 years, n = 31), and (3) patients with a chronic SCI (mean time from injury 4.8 years, mean age at injury 35.2 years, n = 34). All the patients were clinically examined and structurally interviewed with a list of questions dealing with details of anamnestic information about injury, its treatment, possible complications and persons past and present psycho-social condition. HRQL was assessed by a generic fifteen-dimensional self-administered instrument (15D). The relative importance of the 15D dimensions and an overall judgement of health status were measured by a 0-100 visual analogue scale. Average importance weights of the dimensions of moving and working differed significantly in the three subgroups. Patients with pediatric SCI assigned the lowest importance for moving. The newly injured patients highly valued working capability. The HRQL scores of the patients who had sustained their injury in childhood were significantly hi...Continue Reading

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