Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
NeuroRehabilitation. 2013;33(3):449-56. doi: 10.3233/NRE-130976.
The purpose of this study is to identify whether protective and risk health behaviors are more common among African Americans with spinal cord injury (SCI) compared with African Americans in the general population.
Mail-in surveys were collected from 252 adult participants with SCI. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data from 2009 was downloaded.
Participants with SCI were more likely to report currently smoking. Among those who reported currently smoking, persons with SCI were less likely to report ever trying to quit. Those with SCI were also more likely to report consuming alcohol and binge drinking in the past month. Participants with SCI were more likely to receive a flu shot/spray in the past year and to have ever received a pneumonia vaccine. Conversely, those with SCI were less likely to report ever having their blood cholesterol checked.
Results of this study suggest that, consistent with previous research, individuals with SCI focused their preventive health behaviors on conditions consistent with SCI prophylactic standard of care (e.g., flu shots and pneumonia vaccines), as compared to behaviors intended to prevent chronic diseases consistent with the overall population.
本研究旨在确定与普通人群中的非裔美国人相比，患有脊髓损伤 (SCI) 的非裔美国人是否更常见采取保护和危险健康行为。
从 252 名成年 SCI 参与者中收集了邮寄调查。下载了 2009 年行为风险因素监测系统的数据。
患有 SCI 的参与者更有可能报告目前吸烟。在那些报告目前吸烟的人中，SCI 患者尝试戒烟的可能性较小。患有 SCI 的人在过去一个月内也更有可能报告饮酒和狂饮。参与者更有可能在过去一年中接种流感疫苗/喷雾剂，并曾经接种过肺炎疫苗。相反，患有 SCI 的人不太可能报告曾经检查过血液胆固醇。
本研究的结果表明，与先前的研究一致，与预防慢性疾病的整体人群行为相比，SCI 患者将其预防性行为集中在符合 SCI 预防标准护理的条件上（例如，流感疫苗和肺炎疫苗）。
