Publications by authors named "M A Gonzalez-Viejo"
Study Design: Survey study.
Objectives: People living with spinal cord injury (SCI) are major healthcare and rehabilitation services consumers and have unmet healthcare needs. This study aimed to describe the socioeconomic characteristics of people living with SCI in Spain and to determine the level of use and satisfaction with the public healthcare system.
Ageing, functioning patterns and their environmental determinants in the spinal cord injury (SCI) population: A comparative analysis across eleven European countries implementing the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey.
PLoS One
April 2023
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates how aging affects individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) across 11 European countries, analyzing relationships between functioning, chronological age, age at injury, and time since injury.
- - Using data from 6,635 participants through advanced statistical modeling, findings show that older age correlates with decreased functioning in paraplegic individuals but not in those with tetraplegia, with varying patterns across different countries.
- - Key environmental factors impacting functioning include accessibility issues in homes and public spaces, highlighting the importance of these determinants in health outcomes for people living with SCI.
Background: Transanal irrigation (TAI) has emerged as a key option when more conservative bowel management does not help spinal cord injured (SCI) individuals with neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD).
Aim: To investigate the short-term efficacy and safety of an electronic TAI system (Navina Smart) in subjects with NBD.
Design: We present an open, prospective efficacy study on Navina Smart, in individuals with NBD secondary to SCI, studied at three months.
Objective: to validate into Spanish the Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction score (NBD score) that quantifies intestinal dysfunction severity in patients with disabilities due to central neurological injury and satisfaction with bowel management.
Material: 59 patients, 30 patients affected by intestinal disability due to spinal cord injury and 29 patients with intestinal disability due to stroke.
Results: The result of the reliability of the construction of the Spanish translation of the NBD score for the whole group of patients shows a Cronbach's α for all the variables of 0.