Trend analysis of common disabilities and causes among in-patients of paraplegic center Peshawar during last five year
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DALYS, paraplegic, monoplegiaAbstract
Objectives: To assess the trend of common disabilities in paraplegic Centre Peshawar during last 5 years. To assess the trend of common causes of disabilities in Paraplegic Centre Peshawar. Methodology: - A retrospective study was conducted in The Paraplegic Centre Peshawar irrespective of age and gender to assess the common disabilities, causes and which gender, age and occupational group is more susceptible in the patients presented during last 5 years. The Data was collected manually through chart review. The data was collected from 600 charts. All relevant data will be recorded and analyzed using the SPSS 19.0 Software package. Results: A total of 500 patients including both Genders of all age groups & profession were included in this study. Male were the most commonly affected gender (77.6%) Followed by Female (22.4%). Disability was found highest among age group 21-30 third decade (33.4%). Disability is common in uneducated people (45.2 %). Among disabilities type paraplegia was most common (79.6%) followed by tetraplegia (20%) & others (0.4%). In all disabilities the most important cause was Fall from height.
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