Education, recreation and employment following sci who have completed rehabilitation from CRP.

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify the level of participation of education, recreation & employment of a spinal cord injury (SCI) patient after successful rehabilitation. Objectives: To find out the level of participation of education, recreation & employment of a spinal cord injury (SCI) patient after successful rehabilitation. Methodology: This is a cross sectional quantitative study where 102 SCI patients are purposively selected who completed successful rehabilitation from Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) at spinal cord injury (SCI) inpatient unit. Data was collected from the patients through phone calls. Result: Result shows that the majority of the patients (57.8%) 59 were belonged to the age group 21-40 years & their mean age was 34.76. The SD of participant’s age was 0.702. Among 102 participants 46 (45.1%) injury are occurred due to fall from height. Among all the participants 41 (40.2%) had primary education before SCI & after rehabilitation 99 (97.1%) participants are not involved with education. Rest 3 (2.9%) are continuing their study after rehabilitation. Most of the participants of this study 37 (36.3%) were watched TV for their recreation before SCI & 49% participants are not involved with recreation after injury. 26% of the SCI were involved with self-business before SCI. Among the 102 participants 27 (26.5%) were taken vocational training from CRP. Conclusion: Spinal cord injury medically complex but preventable, modifiable disease. It can affect ones mental and psychological health. It is a devastating condition for an individual who have poor economic condition. In this research it was aimed to find out the level of participation of education, recreation & employment of a spinal cord injury (SCI) patient after successful rehabilitation. Keywords: Education, Recreation, Employment, Spinal Cord Injury, Rehabilitation.