Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva Ploščad 16, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Aug 30;18(17):9148. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179148.
The higher quality of life of people with spinal cord injury is closely related with their reintegration into the social environment. Social reintegration is a demanding and complex process, requiring individuals to become active again and acquire age-, gender-, and culture-appropriate roles and social status. It also involves independence and productive behavior as part of multiple interpersonal relationships with family, friends, and others. In order to establish whether individuals with spinal cord injury who are physically active subjectively rate their quality of life to be higher compared to those who are not, sixty-two respondents from Slovenia with spinal cord injury were interviewed. Thirty-one of them were physically active, and 31 were not. The level of injury of the responders was from Th6-Th12. The participants gave the highest assessments to their interpersonal relationships, and the lowest to their satisfaction with material prosperity. Data comparison showed that subjective estimates in all areas of quality of life are higher in respondents who were involved in physical activity after their injury. The results may encourage persons with spinal cord injury to participate more often in sports programs, and also encourage others to do so.
脊髓损伤患者的生活质量较高与其重新融入社会环境密切相关。社会融入是一个要求高且复杂的过程，需要个人重新活跃起来，并获得适合年龄、性别和文化的角色和社会地位。它还涉及独立性和生产性行为，作为与家人、朋友和其他人建立多种人际关系的一部分。为了确定主观上积极参加体育活动的脊髓损伤患者是否比不参加体育活动的患者对生活质量评价更高，对来自斯洛文尼亚的 62 名脊髓损伤患者进行了访谈。其中 31 人积极参加体育活动，31 人不参加。受访者的损伤水平为 Th6-Th12。参与者对人际关系的评价最高，对物质繁荣的满意度最低。数据比较表明，在受伤后参与体育活动的受访者在生活质量的所有领域的主观估计都更高。结果可能鼓励脊髓损伤患者更频繁地参与体育项目，并鼓励其他人也这样做。
