Exploring lifestyle components and associated factors in newly injured individuals with spinal cord injury.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Cross-sectional analysis from the Inception Cohort of the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Study (SwiSCI).

Objectives

To describe five lifestyle components in newly injured individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), explore co-occurrence of these components, and identify associated personal and clinical factors.

Settings

Initial rehabilitation stay following traumatic and non-traumatic SCI.

Methods

Lifestyle components including overweight/obesity, low diet score, physical inactivity, smoking, and alcohol consumption were used independently and to calculate a composite lifestyle score. Analyses were conducted using descriptive statistics, co-occurrence analysis, and multivariate logistic regression.

Results

We included 251 individuals, of whom 77.7%

SUBMITTER: Haldemann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11621014 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature