Experience of Person with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) About their Discharge Process Through Good Start Project (GSP) of CRP, Savar, Dhaka

Abstract

The study aimed to find out the experience of person with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) regarding their discharge process through Good Start Project (GSP). The objectives were to know the understanding of the service user about their overall discharge process through GSP, the service user's experience about safe departure from hospital and arrival at their residence through GSP, Gathering the service user's opinion about home environment modification as part of GSP and to know if there is/are any suggestion/'s by the users regarding their discharge process through GSP. This study has been done by using Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) approach of Qualitative method and it has been conducted in the community where the participants dwell in. A semi structured questionnaire has been used for the data collection and 5 participants were interviewed by it. The findings of the study showed that, the participants are knowledgeable about their discharge process through GSP; they expressed their feelings regarding health maintenance along with the transport service for the safe arrival at residence and also mentioned that, the accessible home environment increased their occupational performance level. They also added some recommendations to include those on the community aspect of practice of GSP for the betterment of the service. As GSP is a new initiative in the SCI rehabilitation sector of Bangladesh and this is the first study in this sector, so the service provider and the other rehabilitation professionals may find it useful to their practice and also for future implication.