An Evaluation of Spinal Cord Injury Patients at the end of five years after discharge from CRP

Abstract

Background: The incidence of spinal cord injury continues to be increasing day by day throughout the world but the incidence rate is higher in low income countries. Life expectancy after SCI is markedly reduced due to secondary complications, severity of injury, social deprivation, and lack of proper rehabilitation. Most common and life threatening secondary complications in resource poor settings are pressure sore, urinary tract infection, contractures, chronic pain, deep vein thrombosis etc. Objective: The main objective of the study was to determine current status of person with SCI who had discharged from hospital 5 years ago. Method: This was a cohort retrospective observational study of the spinal cord injury patients admitted for rehabilitation at Centre for Rehabilitation of Paralysed (CRP) in Bangladesh in 2011.Sample size was estimated according to following formula with 95% confidence level, 5% margin of error and a total population of 295 patients, from that sample size was 168. But50 patients were being interviewed from that by using simple random sampling in the Microsoft Excel Worksheet. Records of all admitted patients with spinal injuries from January 2011 to December 2011 were followed up by phone call and home visits were carried out when needed. Researcher used preforms pretested scale of SCI secondary condition, WHODAS scale, SF-12 scale, CESDE-R scale and questionnaire about his activities.