Quality of Life and Physical Activity of Persons with Spinal Cord Injury.

ABSTRACT: The higher quality of life of people with spinal cord injury is closely related with their reintegration into the social environment. Social reintegration is a demanding and complex process, requiring individuals to become active again and acquire age-, gender-, and culture-appropriate roles and social status. It also involves independence and productive behavior as part of multiple interpersonal relationships with family, friends, and others. In order to establish whether individuals with spinal cord injury who are physically active subjectively rate their quality of life to be higher compared to those who are not, sixty-two respondents from Slovenia with spinal cord injury were interviewed. Thirty-one of them were physically active, and 31 were not. The level of injury of the responders

SUBMITTER: Filipcic T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8430911 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature