Conception of spinal cord injured person’s with hospital care, rehabilitation and new life situation

Abstract

Purpose: To find out Spinal cord injued person’s conception of hospital care, rehabilitation and new life situation.Objectives:To identify the SCI patients perception about hospital care and explore the conception of Rehabilitation program and how to adjust the new life situation.Methodology:This study used the qualitative research design.The sample size was 10 and purposive sampling technique was used for sample selection who was admitted in Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP) in Bangladesh which is the largest spinal cord injury rehabilitation centre in South Asia. This study was followed all rules of data collection including method of data collection, materials used for data collection, duration and procedure of data collection. Data collection is the strong point of any research which maintains the research validity and reliability. Result:Among the participants, three participants were female and seven were male. The average age was 37 with minimum age 14 years and maximum 65 years. There are female were 03 and male were 07. From10 participants, 02 participants were illiterate, 03 participants had primary education, 04 participants completed secondary education, and 01 participant had Bachelor degree. According to the transcripts, 10 of the participants stated that 04 patients said very good environment, 04 patients perception good and 02 patients also said poor. Maximum participants said that theyare satisfied about the patient’s condition.70% patients said that treatment in the CRP expensive and rest 30% patients said that treatment in the CRP non-expensive. About 90% patients said that training is sufficient for SCI patient. After completed 60% will be able to return the previous life and 40% patients will not be able to return the previous life. 50% patients can adjust with new life situation and 50% patients can’t adjust with new life situation. Conclusion: Most of the patient is satisfy about hospital care because all therapist, doctor, nurses and staff is friendly, give sufficient time, communication very well, environment is very nice of hospital and comparatively treatment cost is low. Key word: Spinal Cord, Rehabilitation , Conception and New life.