Consumer-Assistant Education to Reduce the Occurrence of Urinary Tract Infections Among Persons with Spinal Cord Injury
| Autor: | Michael Acuff, Laura Schopp, Kristofer J. Hagglund, Ashley K. Sherman, Mary J. Clark |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Future studies business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Urinary system Rehabilitation Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation medicine.disease Intervention (counseling) Emergency medicine medicine Physical therapy Neurology (clinical) business Spinal cord injury |
| Zdroj: | Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation. 10:53-62 |
| ISSN: | 1082-0744 |
| DOI: | 10.1310/jq0j-bx6j-rapb-p2t4 |
| Popis: | Urinary tract infections (UTIs) have been identified as one of the most common secondary conditions among individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). This article describes the outcomes of an educational intervention to reduce UTI incidence. Persons with SCI who attended an in-person educational workshop reported a decrease in the occurrence of UTIs over a 6-month period, compared to persons not attending the workshop (p .02). Future studies should include oversampling for those persons at greatest risk, including minorities and those with poor health status, with few social supports, and with high cervical level injuries who rely more extensively on personal assistant services. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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