Economical burden of people with spinal cord injury in the hospital patients.

Abstract

Background: Traumatic spinal cord injuries (tSCI) exact an extensive burden on the injured individual, their family and carers, and society as a whole. In addition to the physical and psychosocial trauma, the economic burden is thought to be substantial, due to increased health care costs as well as higher rates of morbidity and premature mortality. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to estimate the current lifetime economic burden of traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) in Bangladesh from a societal perspective, including both direct and indirect costs, using an incidence-based approach. Methodology: The study design was cross-sectional. Total 60 samples were selected conveniently for this study from Spinal Cord Injury unit, CRP, Savar. Data was collected by using of questionnaire. The study was conducted by using quantitative descriptive analysis through using SPSS software 20.0 version. Available resource use and cost information for complete/incomplete tetraplegia and paraplegia was applied to the estimated annual incidence of tSCI, by severity, in Bangladesh. Analysis of data: Self-made questionnaire & SPSS was used for analyzing the data. Results: In this study, the results found that 70% tSCI patient (hospitalized) strongly agreed wheelchair as an economic burden. Among the total participants, 75% had costs about 1-5lakh, 15% had costs about 6-10lakh, 5% had costs about 11-15lakh, 5% had costs about ˃20lakh after the injury. Conclusion: This study focuses on the economic burden of SCI patients in their own community and found that the costs after injury were really an economic burden for the SCI hospital patients. Key words: Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Economic burden, Community