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International Comparison of Vocational Rehabilitation for Persons With Spinal Cord Injury: Systems, Practices, and Barriers KU Leuven
Background: Employment rates among people with spinal cord injury or spinal cord disease (SCI/D) show considerable variation across countries. One factor to explain this variation is differences in vocational rehabilitation (VR) systems. International comparative studies on VR however are nonexistent. Objectives: To describe and compare VR systems and practices and barriers for return to work in the rehabilitation of persons with SCI/D in ...
A review and evaluation of patient-reported outcome measures for spasticity in persons with spinal cord damage: Recommendations from the Ability Network - an international initiative KU Leuven
Context: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are valuable for capturing the impact of spasticity on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in persons with spinal cord damage (SCD) and evaluating the efficacy of interventions. Objective: To provide practical guidance for measuring HRQoL in persons with spasticity following SCD. Methods: Literature reviews identified measures of HRQoL and caregiver burden, utilized in studies addressing ...
Effect of an intervention on the congruence of nurses' and patients' perceptions of patient-centred care: a pre-test post-test study KU Leuven
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To evaluate measurement invariance of the Individualized Care Scale (ICS) across patients and nurses, and assess the degree of congruence in nurses' and patients' perceptions on patient-centredness and the impact of an intervention there on. METHODS: A pre-post intervention study design with an expert by experience intervention was conducted in 2016 to 2017. Nurses (n = 138) and patients (n = 199) of two hospital departments ...
The Cochrane Corners by Cochrane Rehabilitation KU Leuven
Cochrane Rehabilitation (CR) is pursuing the goal of disseminating Cochrane evidence, in line with the Cochrane Knowledge Translation (KT) strategy theme 2: "Packaging, push, and support implementation", through several projects: the CR eBook project, blogshots, and Cochrane Corners. A Cochrane Corner is a KT vehicle in which the contents of the Cochrane Library are summarized and presented by a rehabilitation professional, using the qualitative ...
ISPRM/ESPRM guidelines on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine professional practice for adults with obesity and related comorbidities KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared obesity as the largest global chronic health problem in adults. In the last years, attention has been drawn to rehabilitative interventions for patients with obesity. AIM: The aim of this manuscript is to provide Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (PRM) physicians with evidence-based recommendations for the rehabilitation of patients with overweight or obesity and related ...
First impact of COVID-19 on services and their preparation "Instant paper from the field" on rehabilitation answers to the COVID-19 emergency KU Leuven
This paper reports the immediate impact of the epidemic on rehabilitation services in Italy, the first country in Europe hit by COVID-19. In a country with almost 5000 Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine physicians, the webinar had 230 live viewers (4.5%), and more than 8900 individual visualizations of the recorded version. The overall inadequate preparation of the rehabilitation system to face a sudden epidemic was clear, and similar to that ...
Rehabilitation and respiratory management in the acute and early post-acute phase "Instant paper from the field" on rehabilitation answers to the COVID-19 emergency KU Leuven
COVID-19 is a respiratory infectious disease that can cause respiratory, physical and psychological long-term dysfunctions in patients. First recommendations on respiratory management were published, but they were not based on the specific needs due to COVID-19. In this paper we share the early experiences from the clinical field in Northern Italy, where the epidemic started in February. This paper summarizes the second webinar on COVID-19 (230 ...
Impact of spasticity on functioning in spinal cord injury: an application of graphical modelling KU Leuven
OBJECTIVE: To identify the impact of moderate-to-severe spasticity on functioning in people living with spinal cord injury. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data using graphical modelling. SUBJECTS: Individuals (n = 1,436) with spinal cord injury aged over 16 years with reported spasticity problems. METHODS: Spasticity and 13 other impairments in body functions were assessed using the spinal cord injury Secondary Conditions ...