TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Cell telephone ownership and social integration in persons with spinal cord injury
JO  - Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
A1  - Roach, Mary Joan
A1  - Harrington, Amanda
A1  - Powell, Heather
A1  - Nemunaitis, Gregory
SP  - 472
EP  - 476
VL  - 92
IS  - 3
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0003-9993
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2010.09.030
ID  - ref1
ER  -