Abstract
Study design:
Retrospective Longitudinal Study.
Objectives:
(1) To determine whether the Spinal Cord Injury Activities of Daily Living (SCI_ADL) measure shows adequate item-level and precision psychometrics; (2) to investigate whether the SCI_ADL measure effectively detects ADL changes across time; (3) to describe self-care task(s) participants can and cannot do across time.
Setting:
Two Midwestern hospitals and 1 Southeastern specialty hospital in 1993.
Methods:
All participants were adults with traumatic SCI of at least 1-year duration at enrollment. We used 20-year (1993–2013) retrospective longitudinal data and categorized participants into three injury levels: C1–C4 (cervical; n=50), C5–C8 (n=126) and T1–S5 (thoracic, lumbar and sacral; n=168). We first examined psychometrics of the SCI_ADL with factor and Rasch analyses; then we investigated longitudinal change of SCI_ADL scores at three time points over 20 years (1993, 2003 and 2013) using generalized linear mixed modeling and post hoc analyses.
Results:
The SCI_ADL measure demonstrated unidimensionality, person strata of 2.9, high Cronbach’s α (0.93) and fair person reliability (0.76). T1–S5 had the highest measures, following C5–C8 and C1–C4 at three time points (P<0.05). The C1–C4 and T1–S5 groups showed significant decreases from 2003 to 2013; however, none of the three groups showed significant differences from 1993 to 2003 (P<0.05).
Conclusions:
The SCI_ADL measure could detect longitudinal ADL changes of the population with SCI across time. The C1–C4 group decreased the most in ADLs, indicating higher need of long-term services and rehabilitation.
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Li, CY., Velozo, C., Hong, I. et al. Generating Rasch-based activity of daily living measures from the Spinal Cord Injury Longitudinal Aging Study. Spinal Cord 56, 14–21 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.2017.99
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