Community participation of wheelchair users after spinal cord injury

Abstract

Purpose: To find out the community participation of wheelchair users after spinal cord injury. Objectives: To gether the socio-demography information of wheelchair users SCI people, to know out about physical activities of wheelchair users SCI people, to discover the social activities of wheelchair users SCI people, to establish community attitude toward wheelchair users SCI people, to explore the transportation and community accessibility of wheelchair users SCI people, to bring out perception about wheelchair using among the participants. Methodology: This study was mixed type of study which included qualitative & quantitative research approach. The study design was cross sectional. Total 10 samples were selected by simple random sampling from Savar and dhamrai upazila at Dhaka. Data was collected by mixed (open & close ended) questionnaire. Sociodemographic statistics were presented by SPSS software version 16.0,data focusing on pie chart and bar chart and theme analysis by Content analysis procedure. Result: After Spinal cord injury 80% wheelchair users age was (18- 37) years. 60% wheelchair users SCI people were paraplegic and common neurological level was complete A (70%). Most commonly affected skeletal level was thoracic level (40%) among the participants . Most of the (80%) wheelchair users were male among the SCI people and 80% people were educated with different level and 80% were involved with different type of work. Physical activities are so poor among the wheelchair user SCI people such as bathing, clothing, eating , toileting, gardening, housekeeping etc. Social involving activities were quite good among the wheelchair users SCI people. Most of them were got better support from family and community people. Community accessibilities were very poor. They were not satisfied about the transportation. Most of them were not concerned about health condition. Perception about wheelchair using were slightly satisfied among the wheelchair user SCI people. Conclusion: All over the findings of this research is community participation of wheelchair users people was not so good