All day in bed, all night in the wheelchair: Unmet attendant care needs of people with spinal cord injury.

Context: Having dependable attendant care is essential to the health and well-being of those most severely impacted by a spinal cord injury (SCI). Our objective was to identify how often people with SCI who require assistance for transfers either spend a full day in bed or all night in a wheelchair because they do not have paid or unpaid assistance.

Findings: Of the 918 respondents, 319 (34.

Perceived impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among people with spinal cord injury: A descriptive study.

Objective: To describe the self-reported impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Cross sectional study.

Participants: There were a total of 382 adult participants with traumatic SCI of at least one-year duration, all of whom were identified through a state-based surveillance registry in the Southeastern United States.

Job Retention Among Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis: Relationship With Prediagnostic Employment and Education; Demographic Characteristics; and Disease Course, Severity, and Complications.

Objective: To identify how prediagnosis employment, education, demographic statuses, and disease factors relate to job retention among people with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Design: Cross-sectional logit model.

Setting: Data were collected at an academic Medical University and a specialty hospital, both in the Southeastern US.

Social participation as a mediator of the relationships of socioeconomic factors and longevity after traumatic spinal cord injury.

Study Design: Cohort study.

Objective: Previous research has indicated that socioeconomic factors affect longevity after traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). Our purpose was to evaluate whether social participation mediates the relationship between socioeconomic factors and survival status after SCI.

Barriers and Facilitators to Employment: A Comparison of Participants With Multiple Sclerosis and Spinal Cord Injury.

Objective: To compare self-reported barriers and facilitators to employment among employed and unemployed participants with multiple sclerosis (MS) and spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Cross-sectional study using self-report assessment obtained by mail or online.

Setting: Medical university in the southeastern United States.

Health-related behaviors and multiple chronic health conditions among persons with traumatic spinal cord injury.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to assess (i) prevalence of self-reported multiple chronic conditions (MCC) in a population-based cohort of persons with traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) and (ii) the association between health-related behaviors and MCC.

Setting: Population-based TSCI cohort.

Employment and Gainful Earnings Among Those With Multiple Sclerosis.

Objective: To identify demographic, educational, and disease-related characteristics associated with the odds of employment and earnings among participants with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Design: Cross-sectional using self-report assessment obtained by mail or online.

Setting: Medical university in the southeastern United States.