Individual capacity on daily activities of people with spinal cord injury

Abstract

Purpose: To assess the individual capacity on daily activities of people with SCI attending at specialized rehabilitation centre. Objectives: To find out the sociodemographic characteristics, clinical parameters and individual capacity on daily activities, association among socio-demographic characteristics with clinical parameters and the relationship between clinical parameters and individual capacity on daily activities of paraplegic SCI participants. Methodology: The study design was crosssectional. Total 72 samples were selected conveniently for this study from Centre for the rehabilitation of the paralysed (CRP), SCI unit, at Savar. Procedure of data collection: Data was collected by using of questionnaire and the individual capacity on daily activities was assessed by the FIM scale. Data analysis procedure: The study was conducted by using quantitative descriptive analysis through using SPSS software 20.0 version. Results: Among 72 SCI patients evaluation, Out of 72 participants, the majority are male 84.70% (n=61) participants and Female was 15.30% (n=11). Majority 55.60% (n=40) were live in rural area, 26.40% (n=19) were live in urban area and 18.10% (n=13) were live in semi-urban area. In FIM scale, it is found that male participants are more functionally independent in all domains of FIM scale rather than female participants. Conclusion: Spinal cord injury is a disastrous condition which causes turn over the individual capacity on daily activities. The spinal cord injured persons reported low scores on all of the FIM dimensions that characterize poor activity if daily living (ADL) among all. The study demonstrated that spinal cord injury greatly affects daily activities and gives rise to more problems, especially in the transfer, standing and walking. It is necessary to take steps to improve the transfer, standing, walking and able to daily activities of persons with spinal cord injury, as this will eventually lead to improvement in their activity of daily living. Key words: Individual capacity, Daily Activities, Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)