Study of Welfare Apparatus by Questionnaire in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

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  • アンケート調査による脊髄損傷患者の福祉機器の検討

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We surveyed the score of Japanese version Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique (CHART) in addition to the original questionnaire in 90 patients with spinal cord injury who belonged to Spinal Injuries Japan prefectural branch office in Miyazaki. We received 64 answers for the questionnaire. To clarify the relation between CHART and welfare apparatus, we added our original questionnaire for locomotion, elimination and decubitus ulcers, and compared the score of each CHART area in this study.<BR>The results showed that the area of independence of body was highest, and the area of occupation was lowest in the score of CHART. In addition, the elimination-control-independent group was significantly higher than the non-elimination-independent group for the total CHART score.<BR>On the other side, most patients used hand-operated wheelchairs indoors and outdoors. The CHART score of the normal type wheelchair group was higher than that of modified wheelchair group. In the comparison of the presence and absence of decubitus ulcer in past medical history, the total CHART score in the present group was lower than the absence group, but not significantly.

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