TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Do risk perceptions explain sex differences in community integration and participation after spinal cord injury?
JO  - Journal of spinal cord medicine
A1  - Lysack, Cathy
A1  - Neufeld, Stewart
A1  - Dillaway, Heather
SP  - 193
EP  - 201
VL  - 37
IS  - 2
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To describe how men and women with spinal cord injury rate the risks posed by a set of everyday activities measured using the Risk Inventory for persons with Spinal Cord Injury (RISCI), and to examine whether sex differences are related to community integration and participation. DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Metropolitan Detroit. PARTICIPANTS: One hundred and forty community-dwelling white and African-American men and women with SCI. OUTCOME MEASURES: RISCI scores, community integration, and level of and satisfaction with community participation. RESULTS: Study participants were just over age 40 years, and had been living with SCI for 10.8 years. One-third were women and 40% were African-American. Results showed women with SCI had higher RISCI scores (perceived more dangers) on every item on the RISCI Scale (P < 0.001). The items perceived to hold greatest risk were revealing personal information to others, going on a blind date, and going for a roll ("walk") alone after dark. Women with higher RISCI scores reported lower community integration (P < 0.05) and lower levels of and lower satisfaction with community participation (P < 0.01). For men, however, RISCI scores were mainly unrelated (except for community integration) to participation measures. CONCLUSION: More research is needed to determine whether the levels of risk perceived by women are warranted and whether a sense of vulnerability for women with SCI is unnecessarily limiting their chances at "a good life" after injury.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1079-0268
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2045772313Y.0000000146
ID  - ref1
ER  -