Living With Spinal Cord Injury.
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Type
- Observational
- Design
- Observational Model: CohortTime Perspective: Other
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 16 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
All individuals in the Norwegian Spinal Cord Injury Registry (NorSCIR) in the period 2011-2017, meaning that they have already given their consent, will be asked to participate. They will be sent a letter with information about the study including a questionnaire. In the letter they will also be ask...
All individuals in the Norwegian Spinal Cord Injury Registry (NorSCIR) in the period 2011-2017, meaning that they have already given their consent, will be asked to participate. They will be sent a letter with information about the study including a questionnaire. In the letter they will also be asked, if they agree, to forward an invitation letter to their closest caregiver addressed to "the main family caregiver". Main family caregiver will be defined as persons who are providing unpaid assistance and support to the person with a SCI. The letter for the caregiver with information about the study, includes a questionnaire. All patients in the NorSCIR and their main caregivers (after consent) will be linked to national administrative register to provide data on social insurance benefits, education and work. Control groups from the general population will be selected and identified in the national registries (for both the patient cohort and caregiver cohort). These control groups will be used to compare the level of work/benefit over time for patients and caregivers with that of the general population. Also, within-person approaches will be used to assess the impact of the injury, comparing each participant's status in the period after injury with their own status at a time period before injury.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT03709732
- Collaborators
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Investigators
- Study Director: Johan Skomsvoll, md phd St. Olavs Hospital Principal Investigator: Annette Halvorsen, md St. Olavs Hospital