@article{ref1,
title="Cell telephone ownership and social integration in persons with spinal cord injury",
journal="Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation",
year="2011",
author="Roach, Mary Joan and Harrington, Amanda and Powell, Heather and Nemunaitis, Gregory",
volume="92",
number="3",
pages="472-476",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence and demographic characteristics associated with cell telephone ownership and to investigate whether cell telephone ownership has a positive relationship with social integration. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Model Systems. PARTICIPANTS: Participants (N=7696) with traumatic SCI who were entered into the National SCI Database and completed a follow-up interview from April 2004 through April 2009. INTERVENTIONS: None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Cell telephone ownership; Craig Handicap Assessment Reporting Technique Social Integration subscale. RESULTS: A total of 73% of participants owned a cell telephone. Persons who were younger, employed, achieved education beyond grade school, and had computer and e-mail access were more likely to own cell telephones. Not owning a cell telephone decreased the likelihood of belonging to the high-social-integration group compared with the low-integration group (odds ratio, .509; 95% confidence interval, .396-.654). Persons with low or medium social integration scores were less likely to own a cell telephone than those who had high social integration scores. CONCLUSION: In this study, most participants owned a cell telephone, although 27% did not compared with 13% nonowners in the general population. Owning a cell telephone increased the likelihood of being more socially integrated compared with non-cell telephone ownership.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-9993",
doi="10.1016/j.apmr.2010.09.030",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2010.09.030"
}