Barriers to return to work for the people with spinal cord injury.

Abstract

Purpose: To identify the barriers to return to work for the people with Spinal Cord Injury(SCI). Objectives: To find out the barriers to return to work for the people with Spinal Cord Injury, to identify the socio-demographic information, to explore the injury related status, to evaluate functional status, to find out the association between socio demographic and different barriers related information.Methodology: The study was cross-sectional. Total 60 samples were selected conveniently for this study from the community. Data was collected by using mixed type of questionnaire. Descriptive statistic was used for data analysis which focused through table, pie chart and bar chart. Results: In this study it was found that among the participants in the domains family role, work & education and social life & relationships were poor and very poor participation were mostly and also some fair found in items. Especially helping or supporting other people around 29 (48.3%) faces barrier in domains of social life & relationships, 25 (41.7%) faces difficulty in getting heavy tasks done in domains of family role and 30 (50%) faces barrier to getting the getting or keeping or voluntary job education or training in domains of work and education. In most cases were minor except getting or keeping or voluntary job cases were major around 34 (56.7%). Analysis showed that among the participants in autonomy indoor majority 22 (36.7%) faces barrier in going to the toilet, in autonomy outdoor valued as visiting relatives and friends, going on the sort of trips and holidays faces majority were 31 (51.7%). Among association between socio demographic and all domains of IPA questionnaire most of the items of autonomy indoor are highly significant and access to getting or keeping or voluntary job is the most important variable in predicting perceived severe problems with participation.Conclusion: Barriers is a major important issue in people with SCI. Theconsequences of barriers are higher in the working group in comparison with the non working population. These results of this study also provided background information about spinal cord injury that may beuseful in minimize the Barriers to return to work for the people with spinal cord injury. Key word: Spinal Cord Injury, Barrier, IPA