Does severity of spinal cord injury predict likelihood of suffering chronically from severe depression and anxiety?

Study Design: Qualitative Survey study.

Objective: One might assume that those with higher and more complete spinal cord injuries are at higher risk of depression and anxiety. The objective of this study was to assess the association between level and severity of injury with the degree of anxiety and depression in chronic spinal cord injury.

Transanal irrigation bowel routine for people with Cauda Equina Syndrome.

Objective: Neurologic bowel incontinence and dysfunction are common with Cauda Equina Syndrome (CES). The study objective was to evaluate the efficacy of Peristeen Anal Irrigation System (PAIS) in people with CES.

Design: Clinical Trial.

Outreach physiatry clinics in remote Manitoba communities: an economic cost analysis.

Background: One in 5 people in Canada have a disability affecting daily activities, and, for rural patients, accessing lifelong physiatry care to improve function and manage symptoms requires complex and expensive travel. We compared the costs of new outreach physiatry clinics with those of conventional urban clinics in Manitoba.

Methods: Six outreach clinics were held from January 2018 to September 2019 in the remote communities of St.

Inside the lived perspective of life after spinal cord injury: a qualitative study of the desire to live and not live, including with assisted dying.

Study Design: Qualitative.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine whether individuals with a SCI would have considered Medical-Assistance-in-Dying (MAiD) following their SCI and whether these individuals felt they would have been able to make an informed decision about this potentially permanent option early in their experience.

Setting: Manitoba, Canada.

Design of an mHealth application for winter mobility for mobility device users.

Background: There is limited evidence on the strategies, resources, and tools shown to improve winter mobility and community participation.

Objective: This paper describes a multifaceted approach taken to develop an mHealth application that provides information, resources, and strategies to facilitate winter mobility for mobility device users, service providers, community organisations, and researchers.

Methods: The study was conducted in three phases: (1) A scoping review of peer-reviewed and grey literature was completed to identify literature that reported on tools, strategies, resources, and recommendations used to promote winter mobility; (2) Online asynchronous focus groups were conducted to identify the type of content that mobility device users wanted to include in the web-based application; and (3) A prototype mHealth application was developed based on the findings from the previous phases.