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• TITLE: Analysis of Risk Factors Sociodemographic for the Functional Dependence of Adults with Spinal Cord Injury

  AUTHORS: Roberta de Araújo e Silva, Priscila Alencar Mendes Reis, Zuila Maria de Figueiredo Carvalho, Ana Karina Bezerra Pinheiro, Lorena Barbosa Ximenes, Maria Aparecida Alves de Oliveira

  KEYWORDS: Spinal Cord Injury, Health Promotion, Social Determinants of Health, Nursing

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Vol.8 No.4, April 15, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Objective: To evaluate the odds ratio of risk factors of sociodemographic and functional capacity of adults with spinal cord injury. Methods: Analytical, cross-sectional, quantitative study accomplished with a group of 47 people with spinal cord injury in hospitals and 27 in the household. The data were collected through a structured instrument composed of independent variables related to epidemiological and clinical data on spinal cord injury and dependent variables corresponding to the scale of the Barthel Index (BI). The data were analysed with the two-tailed chi-square or Fisher’s exact tests using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 20.0 (SPSS Inc., USA). Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used as an estimate of the risk. The level of significance was set at a p value ≤0.05. Results: It was found that males (OR = 4.804, p = 0.041), the education less than ten years (OR = 3.000, p = 0.036), the hospital care (OR = 5.250, p = 0.002) and injury time less than six months (OR = 5.250, p = 0.002) are sociodemographic factors that are associated with the functional capacity of individuals with spinal cord injury. Moreover, the total dependence (p