TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - A 25-year cross-sequential analysis of self-reported problems: findings from 5 cohorts from the Spinal Cord Injury Longitudinal Aging Study JO - Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation A1 - Krause, James S. A1 - Clark, Jillian M. R. A1 - Li, Chao SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - OBJECTIVE: To evaluate how self-reported problems change over time among people with spinal cord injury (SCI).

DESIGN: Cross-sequential analysis SETTING: Medical university in the Southeastern United States. PARTICIPANTS: Participants included 1,997 individuals with traumatic SCI of at least 1-year duration, who were identified from participation in the SCI Longitudinal Aging Study from 1993 to 2018. INTERVENTIONS: none MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The outcomes analyzed were 6 problem factors defined as health, social isolation, emotional distress, environmental barriers, money, and lack of opportunities. A series of cross-sequential models, using PROC MIXED procedure, were developed to evaluate the initial and change of the 6 problem factors over the six times of measurements in 25 years.

RESULTS: Years post-injury was negatively associated with initial status of problems of social isolation, emotional distress, environmental barriers, and lack of opportunities, as participants with more years post-injury at baseline reported lower scores on each factor. Longitudinally, with increased years post-injury, higher scores were observed on the health problem factor. However, social isolation, emotional distress, environmental barriers, money and lack of opportunities decreased over time with increasing years post-injury.

CONCLUSIONS: Participants had more health problems with increasing years after SCI, but fewer problems of social isolation, emotional distress, environmental barriers, money, and lack of opportunities.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 0003-9993 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2020.11.016 ID - ref1 ER -