Implementing volunteer peer mentoring as a supplement to professional efforts in primary rehabilitation of persons with spinal cord injury.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

A feasibility study, supplemented by a noncontrolled pretest/posttest.

Objectives

To examine if a nationwide volunteer peer-mentoring program for in-patients with acute/subacute spinal cord injury is feasible and achievable.

Setting

The Spinal Cord Injury Center of Western Denmark and Clinic for Spinal Cord Injuries, Rigshospitalet, Denmark.

Methods

Volunteer mentor groups were formed similarly in two highly specialized SCI centers covering Denmark. Hospital staff was responsible for referral to the mentoring project and for the interdisciplinary evaluation of patient eligibility. At each of the two centers, a person living with the consequences of SCI coordinated the intervention in collaboration with healthcare personnel. Designated project perso

SUBMITTER: Hoffmann DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892415 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature