Demographic and clinical characteristics of persons with spinal cord injury in Turkey: One-year experience of a primary referral rehabilitation center

Taşoğlu, Özlem; Koyuncu, Engin; Daylak, Rabia; Karacif, Derya Yumuşak; İnce, Zerrin; Yenigün, Didem; Özgirgin, Neşe

doi:10.1080/10790268.2016.1224215

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“…According to previous reports, the incidence rate of TSCI worldwide is 2.3 ( 2 ) to 150.6 ( 3 ) per million per year. In this survey, the incidence of TSCI was 49.8 per million per year in China, which was higher than that in most previous findings ( 6 – 8 , 10 , 21 , 26 , 35 – 44 , 46 , 47 ), but lower than that in other studies ( 3 , 5 , 9 , 32 – 34 , 45 , 48 ). The incidence of TSCI in this survey increased with age before 75 years old.…”

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Prevalence, Incidence, and External Causes of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in China: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey

Jiang

Sun

et al. 2022

Front. Neurol.

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Background and PurposeThe epidemiological characteristics of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) in China are unclear. Thus, we aimed to study prevalence, incidence, and external causes of TSCI in China nationwide.MethodsIn 2013, we conducted a nationally representative, door-to-door epidemiological survey on TSCI in China using a complex, multistage, probability sampling design.ResultsIn China, the point prevalence of TSCI standardized to the China census population 2010 was 569.7 (95% CI: 514.2–630.4) per 1,000,000 in the population, 753.6 (95% CI: 663.3–854.3) per 1,000,000 among men, and 387.7 (95% CI: 324.8–461.1) per 1,000,000 among women. The incidence of TSCI standardized to the China census population 2010 was 49.8 (95% CI: 34.4–70.7) per 1,000,000 per year in the population, 63.2 (95% CI: 38.9–98.5) per 1,000,000 among men, and 36.9 (95% CI: 19.5–65.9) per 1,000,000 among women. Among the 415 TSCI events in 394 prevalent cases, the top three injury causes were falls (55.2%), motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) (26.5%), and strike injuries (10.1%), while other injury causes including gunshot and explosion accounted for 8.2%. Among the 394 prevalent cases, the mean age of patients at the time of injury was 43.7 ± 17.1 years; the male-to-female ratio was 1.86:1.ConclusionIt is estimated that there are 759,302 prevalent patients with TSCI in total and 66,374 new TSCI cases annually in China. Falls and MVCs are still 2 major external causes for TSCI in China.

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Prevalence, Incidence, and External Causes of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in China: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey

Jiang

Sun

et al. 2022

Front. Neurol.

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“…12,[19][20][21]34,35 Most articles reported a lower percentage of complete injury than incomplete injury, except 4 studies. 16,17,32,36 In our review, when classifying the types of disabilities caused by SCI, the tetraplegia was more common than paraplegia in both developed countries and nondeveloped countries except Turkey 14 and Canada. 37 Motor-complete injuries (America Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale [AIS]-A or -B) were more common for patients with traumatic SCI, while there were more motorincomplete injuries (AIS-C or-D) for patients with NTSCI.…”

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“…However, the most common cause of SCI in nondeveloped countries was still falls. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] incidence The incidence rate represents the ratio of a new disease in a particular population during a certain period of time. With the expansion of human activities, the incidence of SCI also increased gradually ( Table 1).…”

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Epidemiology of worldwide spinal cord injury: a literature review

Kang¹,

Ding²,

Zhou³

et al. 2017

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“…In this regard, average age (43.8 years) and male/female ratio (1.39/1) in our cohort seem to support a prolonged life expectancy in SCI patients with a shift to a higher prevalence in the elderly population 2,3,10,36,38-40 alongside a decline in the male/female ratio for SCI over time. 32,36,40 Published reports on factors influencing QOL in SCI patients revealed inconsistent findings. 41 Severity of impairment, duration of injury, age, sex, race, marital and educational status, medical complications, self-perceived health and mobility were reported to be associated with QOL in some studies, [41][42][43][44][45][46] while others reported no such associations.…”

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Assessment of quality of life in relation to spasticity severity and socio-demographic and clinical factors among patients with spinal cord injury

Vural

Yalçınkaya

Çelik

et al. 2018

The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine

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Objective: To assess the impact of spasticity severity as well as socio-demographic and clinical factors on quality of life (QOL) and to identify factors predicting poor QOL among patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study. Setting: Tertiary care clinic in Istanbul, Turkey. Participants: A total of 110 patients with SCI (mean (SD) age: 43.8 (14.7) years, 58.2% were males) were enrolled. Assessments: The American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Impairment Scale (AIS), Modified Ashworth Scale (MAS) and Turkish version of the World Health Organization Quality of life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) were utilized to determine the SCI category, severity of spasticity and QOL scores, respectively. Outcome measures: The WHOQOL-BREF scores were evaluated with respect to the severity of spasticity, aetiology and duration of SCI, AIS category and method of bladder management. Results: The mean (SD) physical health (41.9 (15.3) vs. 46.5 (10.9), P = 0.029), social relationships (45.6 (20.2) vs. 53.8 (17.3), P = 0.025) and total WHOQOL-BREF scores were significantly lower in patients with more severe spasticity. Multivariate linear regression analysis revealed that severity of spasticity was a significant predictor of decreased WHOQOL-BREF total scores, physical domain scores and social relations domain scores by 11.381 (P = 0.007), 11.518 (P = 0.005) and 17. 965 (P = 0.004), respectively. Conclusion: In conclusion, addressing QOL in relation to severity of spasticity for the first time among Turkish SCI patients, our findings revealed a negative impact of the spasticity severity on the WHOQOL-BREF scores, particularly for physical health and social relationship domains.

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Demographic and clinical characteristics of persons with spinal cord injury in Turkey: One-year experience of a primary referral rehabilitation center

Cited by 17 publications

References 25 publications

Prevalence, Incidence, and External Causes of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in China: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey

Prevalence, Incidence, and External Causes of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury in China: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey

Epidemiology of worldwide spinal cord injury: a literature review

Assessment of quality of life in relation to spasticity severity and socio-demographic and clinical factors among patients with spinal cord injury

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