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| Title |
Meaning of self-management from the perspective of individuals with traumatic spinal cord injury, their caregivers, and acute care and rehabilitation managers: an opportunity for improved care delivery
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| Published in |
BMC Neurology, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12883-016-0534-2 |
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| Authors |
Sarah E. P. Munce, Fiona Webster, Michael G. Fehlings, Sharon E. Straus, Eunice Jang, Susan B. Jaglal |
| Abstract |
The trend of decreasing length of stay in rehabilitation facilities has led to individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) entering the community with unmet needs and fewer self-care skills to prevent secondary complications. The implementation of a self-management program for individuals with SCI for the management of these complex needs, including secondary complications, may be one option to fill these care gaps. A greater understanding of the meaning of self-management may facilitate the development of a tailored self-management program in this population. Thus, the current research aims to understand the meaning of self-management in traumatic SCI from the perspectives of individuals with traumatic SCI and their caregivers as well as acute care/trauma and rehabilitation managers. A descriptive qualitative approach was used. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with 26 individuals with traumatic SCI, their family members/caregivers, and managers from acute care/trauma and rehabilitation centres. Inductive thematic analysis was applied. The meaning of self-management in SCI related to two overarching themes of internal and external responsibility attribution and revealed differences between the meaning of self-management in SCI among individuals with traumatic SCI and their caregivers versus managers. Overall, the meaning of self-management among the SCI and caregiver participants related principally to internal responsibility attribution. For the manager participants, the meaning of self-management was much narrower and the overarching theme of internal responsibility attribution that was observed among the SCI-caregiver dyads was not as widely expressed by this group. Interventions that are co-created by users and health care professionals are associated with positive physical and mental health outcomes. Thus, the understanding of self-management from these varying perspectives could be applied to the development of a tailored self-management program that is relevant to individuals with traumatic SCI and their caregivers. This may involve the development of a program that uses some of the structure of traditional chronic disease self-management programs, in accordance with the beliefs held by the managers, but also incorporates elements of wellness/health promotion interventions, in accordance with the beliefs held by the SCI and caregiver participants. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 172 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 33 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 7% |
| Researcher | 9 | 5% |
| Other | 26 | 15% |
| Unknown | 60 | 34% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 37 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 27 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 6% |
| Psychology | 10 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 3 | 2% |
| Other | 19 | 11% |
| Unknown | 69 | 39% |
Attention Score in Context
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#14,245,321
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#1,221
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#207,300
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#23
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