Is Spending Nights Away From Home Associated With Participation and Life Satisfaction After Spinal Cord Injury? A Longitudinal Perspective.

Background: Community reintegration after SCI rehabilitation consists of readjustment not only to the home setting but also to the social and occupational spheres, which often require people to spend nights away from home. Because community reintegration contributes to life satisfaction after SCI, it is necessary to investigate how travel participation is related to occupational and social participation and life satisfaction. Additionally, better management of the long-term effects of SCI requires better understanding of the changes in participation and life satisfaction over time.

The pet project: A qualitative exploration into the experience of pet ownership following spinal cord injury.

Study Design: Qualitative study OBJECTIVES: To explore the unique experience of facilitators, barriers, rewards, and challenges related to pet ownership after spinal cord injury (SCI).

Setting: Zoom for Healthcare videoconferencing platform hosted from an American neuro-rehabilitation hospital in Colorado.

Methods: Sixteen individuals with SCI participated in three semi-structured focus groups of 5-6 participants each.

Effect of auditory status on visual emotion recognition in adolescents.

Unlabelled: Adolescents with severe to profound hearing loss who wear cochlear implants (CIs) experience significantly more peer problems compared to peers with typical hearing (TH). Differences in peer social dynamics may relate to perception not only of message content, but also message intent based on a speaker's emotion from visual (e.g.