Publications 2021

Professional home care and the objective care burden for family caregivers of persons with spinal cord injury: cross sectional survey.
Huang J, Pacheco Barzallo D, Rubinelli S, Münzel N, Brach M, Gemperli A. Professional home care and the objective care burden for family caregivers of persons with spinal cord injury: cross sectional survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, Volume 3, November 2021.

Health care, Informal Care, Family caregiver, Home care

The challenges characterizing the lived experience of caregiving. A qualitative study in the field of spinal cord injury
Zanini C, Amann J, Brach M, Gemperli A, Rubinelli S. The challenges characterizing the lived experience of caregiving. A qualitative study in the field of spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord, 2021 May;59(5):493-503. doi: 10.1038/s41393-021-00618-4. Epub 2021 Mar 19.

Care, Health care, Informal Care, Family caregiver

First contact of care for persons with spinal cord injury: A general practitioner or a spinal cord injury specialist?
Touhami D, Brach M, Essig S, Ronca E, Debecker I, Eriks-Hoogland I, Scheel-Sailer A, Münzel N, Gemperli A: First contact of care for persons with spinal cord injury: A general practitioner or a spinal cord injury specialist? BMC Family Practice, 2021 Oct 2;22(1):195. doi: 10.1186/s12875-021-01547-0.

Health services, Health care, Specialized care, General practitioner

Pathways to loneliness: a mediation analysis investigating the social gradient of loneliness in persons with disabilities in Switzerland
Tough H, Gross Hemmi M, Eriks Hoogland I, Fekete C. Pathways to loneliness: a mediation analysis investigating the social gradient of loneliness in persons with disabilities in Switzerland. International Journal Equity in Health. 2021

social relationships, Spinal Cord Injury, social support, self-efficacy, Loneliness, socioeconomic factors

Change in mobility independence over five years in persons with chronic spinal cord injury
De Vries W, Fellinghauer C, Arnet U, Eriks-Hoogland I: Change in mobility independence over five years in persons with chronic spinal cord injury. Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. 2021

Community survey spinal cord injury, Mobility, Independence

Vitamin D supplementation in chronic spinal cord injury (VitD-SCI): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
Hertig-Godeschalk A, Brinkhof MWG, Scheel-Sailer A, Perret C, Jenny A, Wyss PO, Landmann G, Flueck JL: Vitamin D supplementation in chronic spinal cord injury (VitD-SCI): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2021

Nutrition, Spinal Cord Injury, Vitamin D

Longitudinal Changes in Psychological Adaptation Outcomes During Spinal Cord Injury Inpatient Rehabilitation.
Galvis M, Carrard V, Kunz S, Morselli D, Post M, Peter C: Longitudinal Changes in Psychological Adaptation Outcomes During Spinal Cord Injury Inpatient Rehabilitation. Rehabilitation Psychology. 2021

Psychology spinal cord injury, First rehabilitation

Variability in clinical and neurophysiological evaluation of pain development following acute spinal cord injury: a case report.
Ernst M, Ljutow A, Stockinger L, Stoyanov J, Landmann G: Variability in clinical and neurophysiological evaluation of pain development following acute spinal cord injury: a case report. Spinal Cord Series and Cases, volume 7, article number: 72 (2021).

Pain, Neuropathic pain

Adaptation during spinal cord injury rehabilitation: The role of appraisal and coping.
Galvis Aparicio M, Kunz S, Morselli D, Post MWM, Peter C, Carrard V: Adaptation during spinal cord injury rehabilitation: The role of appraisal and coping. Rehabilitation Psychology. 2021 Oct 7. doi: 10.1037/rep0000410.

Psychology, Coping, First rehabilitation

Who is at risk of loneliness? A cross-sectional recursive partitioning approach in a population-based cohort of persons with spinal cord injury
Tough H, Gross-Hemmi M, Stringhini S, Eriks-Hoogland I, Fekete C: Who is at risk of loneliness? A cross-sectional recursive partitioning approach in a population-based cohort of persons with spinal cord injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2021 Sep 21, doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2021.08.018.

Functioning, Community survey spinal cord injury, Partnership, social relationships, Loneliness

Internal consistency and convergent validity of the International Spinal Cord Injury Quality of Life Basic Data Set at discharge from first rehabilitation
Westphal M, Kunz S, Scheel-Sailer A, Fekete C, Lude P, Post MWM, Carrard V: Internal consistency and convergent validity of the International Spinal Cord Injury Quality of Life Basic Data Set at discharge from first rehabilitation. Spinal Cord, 2021 Aug 26.

Methodology, Validation, First rehabilitation

MRI evaluation of shoulder pathologies in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury and the relation to shoulder pain
Arnet U, de Vries WH, Eriks-Hoogland I, Wisianowsky C, van der Woude LHV, Veeger D, Berger M for the SwiSCI Study Group: MRI evaluation of shoulder pathologies in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury and the relation to shoulder pain. The journal of spinal cord medicine. 2021:1-14.

shoulder pain, shoulder MRI, pathology

Inception cohort of the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study (SwiSCI): Design, participant characteristics, response rates and non-response
Fekete C, Gurtner B, Kunz S, Gemperli A, Gmünder HP, Hund-Georgiadis M, Jordan X, Schubert M, Stoyanov J, Stucki G, for the SwiSCI Study Group: Inception cohort of the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study (SwiSCI): Design, participant characteristics, response rates and non-response. J Rehabil Med, 2021 Feb 11.

Cohort study, Inception cohort, Clinical study

Utilization of health care providers by individuals with chronic spinal cord injury.
Gemperli A, Brach M, Debecker I, Eriks-Hoogland I, Scheel-Sailer A, Ronca E: Utilization of health care providers by individuals with chronic spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord, published online: 17.02.2021

Health system, Health care

Detecting subgroups in social participation among individuals living with spinal cord injury: a longitudinal analysis of community survey data
Gross-Hemmi MH, Fekete C, Post MWM, Scheel-Sailer A, Schwegler U, Brinkhof MWG: Detecting subgroups in social participation among individuals living with spinal cord injury: a longitudinal analysis of community survey data. Spinal Cord, published online: 14.01.2021.

Participation, Integration, Community survey spinal cord injury, social participation.

Identification of Classes of Functioning Trajectories and Their Predictors in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Attending Initial Rehabilitation in Switzerland
Hodel J, Ehrmann C, Scheel-Sailer A, Stucki G, Bickenbach JE, Prodinger B, the SwiSCI Study Group: Identification of Classes of Functioning Trajectories and Their Predictors in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury Attending Initial Rehabilitation in Switzerland. Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation 2021, 3: 1-14.

Functioning, Spinal Cord Injury, First rehabilitation

Labor market participation of individuals with spinal cord injury living in Switzerland: determinants of between-person differences and counterfactual evaluation of their instrumental value for policy.
Schwegler U, Fekete C, Finger M, Karcz K, Staubli S, Brinkhof MWG: Labor market participation of individuals with spinal cord injury living in Switzerland: determinants of between-person differences and counterfactual evaluation of their instrumental value for policy. Spinal Cord, published online: 14.01.2021.

Work, Labour market participation, social participation.

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