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0000-0003-1119-7315
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The Spinal Cord Injury Centre of Western Denmark
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-07-2020
DOI: 10.1111/NIN.12370
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 16-06-2022
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0269125
Abstract: This scoping review explores the constitution of a meaningful life as perceived by adults with acquired neurological impairment following an injury or a disease. A neurological injury or disease imposes extensive life changes on the affected person and his or her close relatives. Including the patients’ perception of a meaningful life is crucial to facilitate adjustment of any rehabilitation initiatives to the patients’ wishes, hopes, needs, and preferences. Even so, the descriptions and common traits of a meaningful life from the impaired person’s perspective are scarcely covered in the literature. Hence, a scoping review of existing knowledge is needed to facilitate quality rehabilitation and research initiatives. All studies, regardless of their design, are included provided they describe a meaningful life as considered or experienced by persons aged 18 years or more with neurological impairment. A PICo framework defines the search algorithms used in the databases MEDLINE, Cinahl, PsycINFO and Embase. Using Covidence, the scoping review systematically organizes the identified articles to provide a broad description of the study phenomenon. Furthermore, titles, abstracts, and full-text articles are screened independently by two reviewers to determine if they meet the inclusion criteria. In case of disagreement, a third and fourth reviewer are consulted. The scoping will be reported according to the PRISMA- SCR checklist.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-01-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41393-021-00730-5
Abstract: Observational study OBJECTIVE: To describe body mass index (BMI) during rehabilitation in people with a newly sustained spinal cord injury (SCI). Inpatient SCI rehabilitation in Denmark. Inpatients, >18 years, having sustained a SCI within the last 12 months at admission to primary rehabilitation, inclusive of various SCI etiology, neurological level, completeness of the lesion or mobility status. Measures of BMI were obtained at admission and discharge as part of standard care. At one SCI center measures of BMI were s led at follow up 9.5 months after discharge as well. BMI was described by mean and standard deviation (SD). Paired t-test was used to test difference in BMI between admission and discharge. Repeated measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used for analyzing BMI deriving from three time points. Overall BMI was stable with no change (25.4 kg/m Overall BMI was stable but higher than recommended in people with SCI undergoing rehabilitation at the two national centers in Denmark. Participants with an AIS D SCI were obese according to SCI adjusted BMI and the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations during rehabilitation and at follow up.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-08-2022
DOI: 10.1111/HEX.13574
Abstract: Persons with spinal cord injury have experienced a life‐changing event, and they need to engage in the rehabilitation process to adjust to their current situation and future living conditions. Due to the highly contextual and varying psychological and physical ability to participate from patient to patient during rehabilitation, this is difficult for the injured person and for health professionals to support. Therefore, the aim of the study was to develop and facilitate patient participation by engaging nursing staff and from this engagement in the process, disclose methods to support participation. The processes conducted were based on an action research approach, from problem identification to the development, test and evaluation of four new nursing initiatives. The initiatives were developed by eight nursing staff members who participated actively as co‐researchers in a 2‐year study conducted at a Spinal Cord Injury Centre in Denmark from 2016 to 2018. Data evolved from workshops, transcriptions of meetings and written evaluations and was further analysed using Ricoeur's phenomenological‐hermeneutic approach. Action research processes facilitated the development of four communicative initiatives and a shift in the nursing staff's support of the patient. In a collaborative process, the nursing staff acted as participants in the patient's rehabilitation. Awareness of the patient's perspective facilitated a caring, attentive and engaged approach from the nursing staff, which promoted rehabilitation tailored to the in idual. Patient participation was enhanced when nursing staff actively participated in the development of initiatives and a culture supporting a person‐to‐person approach involving the patient and themselves as equal participants in the collaborative rehabilitation process. Eight nursing staff members from the rehabilitation centre participated throughout the study as co‐researchers. Patients participated in observations and as informants in interviews during the first phase to identify challenges to patient participation. Patients also participated in testing the nursing initiatives during the action phase (Phase 3). Furthermore, a former patient was a member of the advisory board.
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