Prevalence and Determinants of Depression Among Traumatic Spinal Cord Injured Patients Attending Ibn-Al-Quff Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq

Anxiety and depression among traumatic spinal cord injured patients.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between gender, sociodemographic factors, pain, smoking, and the level of anxiety and depressive symptoms after traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) in a Saudi sample. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study from November 2009 to April 2011, in 102 (age range 17-70 years; 84 males, 18 females) TSCI patients admitted to the Spinal Cord Injury Unit, Sul...

Low back pain among caregivers of spinal cord injured patients.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of low back pain among caregivers of patients with spinal cord injury and to investigate the risk factors for LBP among this population. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS A total of 100 spinal cord injured patients and their caregivers, and 87 healthy control subjects. METHODS Caregivers and control subjects completed a questionnaire about demog...

A demographic profile of 7273 traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injured patients in Iran

Background: To evaluate demographic profile of traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injured (SCI) patients. Methods: Mobile rehabilitation teams gathered data in 20 out of 30 provinces in Iran. Of 8104 traumatic and nontraumatic SCI patients under coverage of the State Welfare Organization of Iran registered in the database, 7273 were included in the analysis. The aggregate data on SCIs, inc...

EFFECTS OF CIS APRIDE ON CONS TIPATION DUE TO SPINAL CORD INJURY: REPORT OF FIVE WARFARE SPINAL CORD INJURED PATIENTS

Five warfare spinal cord injured patients with intractable constipation are described. Treatment with cisapride (4 x 10 mg daily) was undertaken. The agent cisapride significantly reduced the oral-anal transit time from 25.2 days to 14.4 days. It also improved other subjective complaints of these patients markedly. No side effects were seen during the trial.

Development, Validity and Reliability of Sexual Health Measures for Spinal Cord Injured Patients in Iran