Identifying Cognitive Barriers to Effective Pressure Ulcer Self-Care

Abstract

Pressure ulcers (PU) in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) incur a substantial health burden, especially in individuals who exhibit poor preventative PU self-care. This study utilizes validated methods to characterize multiple facets of impulsivity in persons with paraplegia who use and do not use substances, in order to assess the predictive role of impulsivity in poor SCI self-care and prognostic value of impulsivity in SCI quality of life (QoL) outcomes. Funding began in April 2019 and approval to begin research activities was secured in August 2019. From August 2019 until the COVID-19 shutdown March 2020, 19 SCI patients were recruited, screened, and enrolled; 2 have completed follow-up. Recruitment was shut down for most of a year due to COVID-19. In response to the pandemic, that research team has worked with the testing software platform to develop a completely remote means of recruitment, collection of informed consent, remote interview, and remote neurobehavioral testing on the participants own device, and accrual has resumed at the VCU site.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1144240

Entities

People

  • James M Bjork

Organizations

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Computational Modeling
  • Computers
  • Covid-19
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Health
  • Medical Personnel
  • Mobile Phones
  • Public Health
  • Quality Of Life
  • Skin Diseases
  • Social Media
  • Spinal Cord
  • Spinal Injuries
  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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