Current pregnancy among women with spinal cord injury: findings from the US national spinal cord injury database.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Cross-sectional study.

Objectives

To examine the prevalence of pregnancy and associations with sociodemographic and clinical factors among women with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting

US National Spinal Cord Injury Database, an SCI registry that interviews participants 1, 5 and then every 5 years post injury. Data include SCI clinical details, functional impairments, participation measures, depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Women aged 18-49 are asked about hospitalizations in the last year relating to pregnancy or its complications. Data represent 1907 women, who completed 3054 interviews.

Methods

We used generalized estimating equations to examine bivariable associations between pregnancy and clinical and psychosocial variables and to per

SUBMITTER: Iezzoni LI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4636947 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature