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Title of the Congress : |
IX Annual conference of International Association of Neurorestarotology |
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Title of your Abstract : |
Perspectives of Health professionals on Barriers of empowerment for care of spinal cord injury patients: a Qualitative Study |
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Destination Country : |
China (People's Republic of China) |
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From : |
Wednesday, August 31, 2016 |
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To : |
Saturday, September 3, 2016 |
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Abstract(Please copy/paste the abstract send to the congress) : |
Background: empowerment is promotion of self-care efforts purposely that individuals, families and communities perform for improving and maintaining their own health and others. According to the socio-cultural fields, empowerment in Iranian spinal cord injury patients has special barriers. In this qualitative study has been investigated health professionals' perspectives regarding these barriers.
Materials &Methods: A qualitative content analysis method was used to analyze the gathered data.
The study participants were 9 people of health professionals Who investigated in the field of spinal cord injury in Iran. They choosed by purposeful sampling. Data was gathered through semi structured interviews and face to face and it was conducted until data saturation. Data analysis and content analysis was conducted in desember 2015 to may 2016. The data analyzing was down with MAXQDA10 software.
Results: Data analysis emerged four main categories as barriers to empowerment in the care of patients with spinal cord injury with categories 1. the lack of services in the acute phase (with subcategori of lack of acute care center), 2. the need for training (with three subcategories: information deficient patients, poor in proper education, poor care by the family of patients), 3. weakness in administrative matters (with four subcategories: lack of teamwork, lack of home care with low cost, lack of follow-up care by patients and health care systems, lack of professional competence), and 4. the lack of a suitable context for empowerment dimensions (with six subcategories: the lack of specialized centers, the lack of community facilities, lack of proper home environment, the lack of legislation, lack of good welfare, Not giving priority to rehabilitation of the disabled in the planning ministry).
Conclusion: Achieving the above themes can increase the awareness of governments, communities, families and treatment authorities in care of patients with spinal cord injury and these barriers would empower authorities to develop more accurate planning and better support of patients.
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Keywords of your Abstract : |
Key words: Spinal cord injury, Empowerment, Health professionals, Content analysis, Iran |
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Acceptance Letter : |
http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/32943/Forms/306/Professor Maryam Shabany_1.pdf |
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The presentation : |
Oral |
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The Cover of Abstract book : |
http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/32943/Forms/306/scanbook_1.pdf |
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Published abstract in the abstract book with the related code : |
http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/32943/Forms/306/Proceeding.pdf |
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Where has your abstract been indexed? : |
none |
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