Predicting employment status at 2 years' postdischarge from spinal cord injury rehabilitation
| Autor: | James W. Middleton, Ruth Quirk, Annelies De Wolf, Gregory C. Murphy, Ian D. Cameron |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Employment Male medicine.medical_specialty Activities of daily living medicine.medical_treatment Psychological intervention Transportation Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Community integration Discriminant function analysis Activities of Daily Living medicine Humans Spinal cord injury Internal-External Control Spinal Cord Injuries Rehabilitation Discriminant Analysis Social Support Prognosis medicine.disease Functional Independence Measure Self Efficacy Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Physical therapy Female New South Wales Psychology Psychosocial Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Rehabilitation Psychology. 56:251-256 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1544 0090-5550 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0024524 |
| Popis: | Objectives This exploratory study examined the extent to which postinjury employment was predictable when patients were followed up 2 years' postdischarge from a specialist Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Unit. Participants and design Seventy-two individuals with SCI for whom there were discharge Functional Independence Measure (FIM) scores, 60 complete sets of data were available for Discriminant Function Analysis. Results Using a combination of variables assessed prior to or shortly after discharge from rehabilitation, complemented by psychosocial variables assessed at the time of follow-up, moderate classification accuracy was achieved with respect to employment status at the 2-year follow-up period (72%), with the set of predictor variables being more accurate at predicting those subsequently in paid employment (83%) than those not (67%). Conclusions The main implication of the study results is that nontraditional variables (i.e., variables other than injury and demographic variables), including, particularly, contextual environmental variables such as community integration, access to transport, and social support, are worthy of further research, especially because many of these are amenable to rehabilitation program interventions, and thus may facilitate the attainment of enhanced rates of postdischarge employment among those living with SCI. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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