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Review of Cross-Cultural Issues Related to Quality of Life After Spinal Cord Injury

Author(s) -

Denise G. Tate,

Martin Forchheimer

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597

H-Index - 35

eISSN - 1945-5763

pISSN - 1082-0744

DOI - 10.1310/sci2003-181

Subject(s) - quality of life (healthcare) , spinal cord injury , medicine , sample (material) , reliability (semiconductor) , set (abstract data type) , international classification of functioning, disability and health , quality (philosophy) , cross cultural , gerontology , physical therapy , rehabilitation , psychiatry , nursing , spinal cord , sociology , anthropology , power (physics) , chemistry , physics , philosophy , epistemology , chromatography , quantum mechanics , computer science , programming language

Quality of life (QOL) is a dynamic concept that means different things to different people, both in the general public and within the research community. Because of this, a common definition of QOL has been hard to achieve. This article reviews cross-cultural issues related to QOL research in spinal cord injury (SCI). Many factors influence QOL for persons with SCI, including observable and objective indicators and subjective self-report ones. The World Health Organization's International Classification of Function, Disability and Health is used in this article as a framework to better understand how these factors may influence QOL. A number of important steps are summarized with respect to measurement issues in QOL. A comparison between data from 2 countries (United States and Brazil) using the International SCI QOL Basic Data Set shows similarities in scores and good reliability in the Brazilian sample. Substantial, significant correlations were observed among the SCI QOL Basic Data Set items and the WHOQOL-BREF within the US sample. The article ends with a set of recommendations for the development of cross-cultural measures of QOL for use in the SCI population.

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