The prevalence and influencing factors of remunerative employment in people with chronic spinal cord injury in a middle-income country: Analysis of the Thai International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey database
Issued Date
2024-09-16
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ISSN
10522263
eISSN
18786316
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85205556580
Journal Title
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
Volume
61
Issue
2
Start Page
253
End Page
264
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SCOPUS
Bibliographic Citation
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation Vol.61 No.2 (2024) , 253-264
Suggested Citation
Pattanakuhar S., Kammuang-Lue P., Srisuppaphon D., Chotiyarnwong C., Kovindha A., Schwegler U. The prevalence and influencing factors of remunerative employment in people with chronic spinal cord injury in a middle-income country: Analysis of the Thai International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey database. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation Vol.61 No.2 (2024) , 253-264. 264. doi:10.3233/JVR-240035 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/101576
Title
The prevalence and influencing factors of remunerative employment in people with chronic spinal cord injury in a middle-income country: Analysis of the Thai International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey database
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Remunerative employment (RE) is one of the optimal rehabilitation goals for people with spinal cord injury (SCI). However, there has been no study systematically determine the RE status and its related factors in Thais with chronic SCI. OBJECTIVE: To cross-sectionally determine RE statuses and their influencing factors in Thais with chronic SCI. METHODS: Data from a Thai arm of the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey (InSCI) were analyzed. The prevalence of RE and related work status were described. RESULTS: Of 223 individuals with chronic SCI whose age was less than 60 years included in this study, 79 (35%) were remunerative employed. Most of them (41, 54%) were self-employed. The most common reason for unemployment was related to health conditions or disabilities. Education year, attending vocational rehabilitation service, and admission≥2 times per year were independent influencing factors of RE with an odds ratio of 1.090, 2.534, and 0.418, respectively. CONCLUSION: Since education and vocational rehabilitation were the modifiable positive influencing factor of employment, educational and vocational rehabilitation programs should be formally established and universally applied together with medical rehabilitation to increase the prevalence of RE in people with SCI in Thailand.