ArticleThe journal of spinal cord medicine2018
Availability and need of home adaptations for personal mobility among individuals with spinal cord injury.
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- Determinants of disability adaptation following rehabilitation in individuals with spinal cord injury in Bangladesh: A 6-Month to 10-year post-injury analysis.Spinal cord · 2026Article
- Barriers to providing long-term care for persons with spinal cord injury in Switzerland: a qualitative study of service delivery and workforce challenges.BMC health services research · 2025Article
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- A Scoping Review on the Influence of Housing on the Health and Well-Being of People with a Spinal Cord Injury/Dysfunction.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Association Between the Availability of Mobility Assistive Products and Participation Outcomes in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury in Switzerland.Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation · 2023Article
- Understanding and modelling the economic impact of spinal cord injuries in the United Kingdom.Spinal cord · 2019Article
- Prevalence of and factors associated with expressed and unmet service needs reported by persons with spinal cord injury living in the community.Spinal cord · 2019Observational
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Abstract
objectiveTo identify the availability and unmet need of home adaptations (HAs) among the Swiss population with spinal cord injury (SCI).
designCross-sectional study.
settingSwiss Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey 2012.
participantsIndividuals aged 16 or older with chronic SCI living in Switzerland.
interventionsNot applicable. OUTCOME MEASURES: The availability of ten HAs (self-report) was analyzed by sex, age, living situation, indoor mobility, SCI severity, SCI etiology and time since SCI. The unmet need (self-report of not having a HA but needing it) of HAs was analyzed by financial hardship.
resultsAmong the 482 study participants (mean age 55.2 years, standard deviation 15.0 years, 71.6% males), 85.1% had at least one HA. The most frequent HA was a wheelchair accessible shower (62.7%). Availability of HAs markedly varied with indoor mobility (e.g. 38.4% of participants using a wheelchair had a stair lift compared to 17.4% of those walking) and with SCI severity (e.g. 54.8% of those with complete paraplegia had a wheelchair accessible kitchen worktop compared to 26.0% of those with incomplete paraplegia). Unmet need was highest for adjustable kitchen worktops (78.7% of those with a need) and adjustable kitchen cabinets (75.7%) and lowest for wheelchair accessible showers (9.4%) and grab bars next to the toilet (8.5%). No significant differences in unmet need were found when stratifying for financial hardship.
conclusionAvailability of HAs is dependent on indoor mobility and SCI severity. There is a considerable degree of unmet need for selected HAs, which couldn't be explained by financial hardship.
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