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. 2011 Jun;24(6):275-84; quiz 285-6.
doi: 10.1097/01.ASW.0000398663.66530.46.

Preventing pressure ulcers in people with spinal cord injury: targeting risky life circumstances through community-based interventions

Ashwini Vaishampayan  1 , Florence Clark, Mike Carlson, Erna Imperatore Blanche
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Preventing pressure ulcers in people with spinal cord injury: targeting risky life circumstances through community-based interventions

Ashwini Vaishampayan et al. Adv Skin Wound Care. 2011 Jun.

Abstract

Objective: The objectives of the study were to sensitize practitioners working with individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) to the complex life circumstances that are implicated in the development of pressure ulcers (PrUs) and to document the ways that interventions can be adapted to target individual needs.

Methods: This study was a content analysis of weekly fidelity/quality control meetings that were undertaken as part of a lifestyle intervention for PrU prevention in community-dwelling adults with SCI.

Results: Four types of lifestyle-relevant challenges to ulcer prevention were identified: risk-elevating life circumstances, communication difficulties, equipment problems, and individual personality issues. Intervention flexibility was achieved by changing the order of treatment modules, altering the intervention content or delivery approach, or going beyond the stipulated content.

Conclusion: Attention to recurrent types of individual needs, along with explicit strategies for tailoring interventions published in a manual, has the potential to enhance PrU prevention efforts for adults with SCI.

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Structure of the intervention in the PUPS-RCT
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Relationship between risk elevating life circumstances and avenues for achieving intervention flexibility
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