Promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury
BACKGROUND: It is still difficult for people with physical impairments to be and remain equally integrated into the labour market. For this reason, the question of occupational activity has explicitly been examined by the German Spinal Cord Injury Survey (GerSCI) in order to identify barriers and fa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7745479/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33334363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-020-00288-7 |
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author | Sturm, Christian Bökel, Andrea Korallus, Christoph Geng, Veronika Kalke, Yorck B. Abel, Rainer Kurze, Ines Gutenbrunner, Christoph M. |
author_facet | Sturm, Christian Bökel, Andrea Korallus, Christoph Geng, Veronika Kalke, Yorck B. Abel, Rainer Kurze, Ines Gutenbrunner, Christoph M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: It is still difficult for people with physical impairments to be and remain equally integrated into the labour market. For this reason, the question of occupational activity has explicitly been examined by the German Spinal Cord Injury Survey (GerSCI) in order to identify barriers and facilitators for labour market participation. METHODS: Cross-sectional explorative observational study. The GerSCI survey is the German part of the International Spinal Cord Injury Survey (InSCI). Using survey data from persons recruited at eight specialised SCI-centres in Germany. Participants: 1.479 persons with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) aged 18 years and older. RESULTS: In a self-disclosure questionnaire, persons with SCI show themselves as a professionally well-educated and highly motivated group with most of them aiming at gainful employment and considering themselves fit for work. Many changeable and non-changeable factors have been found, which showed a high correlation with the return to work after acquired SCI. CONCLUSION: Education and pain belong to the most critical factors and thereby possible approaches to increase the level of employment, which is essential and highly relevant not only for earning money but also for self-confidence and social integration. SCI has many dimensions in itself; support also should be multidimensional. Study results might help to improve participation. |
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spelling | pubmed-77454792020-12-18 Promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury Sturm, Christian Bökel, Andrea Korallus, Christoph Geng, Veronika Kalke, Yorck B. Abel, Rainer Kurze, Ines Gutenbrunner, Christoph M. J Occup Med Toxicol Research BACKGROUND: It is still difficult for people with physical impairments to be and remain equally integrated into the labour market. For this reason, the question of occupational activity has explicitly been examined by the German Spinal Cord Injury Survey (GerSCI) in order to identify barriers and facilitators for labour market participation. METHODS: Cross-sectional explorative observational study. The GerSCI survey is the German part of the International Spinal Cord Injury Survey (InSCI). Using survey data from persons recruited at eight specialised SCI-centres in Germany. Participants: 1.479 persons with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) aged 18 years and older. RESULTS: In a self-disclosure questionnaire, persons with SCI show themselves as a professionally well-educated and highly motivated group with most of them aiming at gainful employment and considering themselves fit for work. Many changeable and non-changeable factors have been found, which showed a high correlation with the return to work after acquired SCI. CONCLUSION: Education and pain belong to the most critical factors and thereby possible approaches to increase the level of employment, which is essential and highly relevant not only for earning money but also for self-confidence and social integration. SCI has many dimensions in itself; support also should be multidimensional. Study results might help to improve participation. BioMed Central 2020-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7745479/ /pubmed/33334363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-020-00288-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Sturm, Christian Bökel, Andrea Korallus, Christoph Geng, Veronika Kalke, Yorck B. Abel, Rainer Kurze, Ines Gutenbrunner, Christoph M. Promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury |
title | Promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury |
title_full | Promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury |
title_fullStr | Promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury |
title_full_unstemmed | Promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury |
title_short | Promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury |
title_sort | promoting factors and barriers to participation in working life for people with spinal cord injury |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7745479/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33334363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12995-020-00288-7 |
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