Table 7.
Prediction of FIM* at 1-year post-injury (motor, self-care items, and lower body components) for patients with motor complete low paraplegia (T1–9)
| One-year post-injury FIM | Motor (11 items)* |
Self-care (6 items)* |
Lower body self-carecomponents* (3 items) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Observations used | 132 | 131 | 131 | ||||||
| Step 1: Pt. characteristics: adj. R2 | 0.23 | 0.11 | 0.12 | ||||||
| Step 2: Pt. characteristics + treatments: adj. R2 | 0.41 | 0.31 | 0.33 | ||||||
| Step 3: Pt. characteristics + treatments + centeridentity: adj. | 0.44 | 0.41 | 0.39 | ||||||
| Independent variables:** | Parameterestimate | P value | Semi-partialOmega2 | Parameterestimate | P value | Semi-partialOmega2 | Parameterestimate | P value | Semi-partialOmega2 |
| Traumatic etiology | – | 0.007 | 0.037 | ||||||
| Other | −1.973 | 0.252 | – | ||||||
| Fall or hit by falling object | 4.963 | 0.007 | – | ||||||
| Vehicular (reference) | 0.000 | – | – | ||||||
| Age at injury | −0.213 | <0.001 | 0.066 | −0.289 | 0.013 | 0.029 | −0.475 | 0.002 | 0.046 |
| Primary language is English | 6.459 | 0.018 | 0.021 | 12.187 | 0.038 | 0.018 | |||
| Patient participation score – OT | 2.783 | 0.005 | 0.033 | 8.518 | <0.001 | 0.083 | 10.971 | <0.001 | 0.078 |
| OT hours of specific treatments | |||||||||
| Equipment evaluation andprovision | −1.285 | 0.013 | 0.024 | −3.194 | 0.005 | 0.037 | −4.443 | 0.003 | 0.041 |
| Grooming | −5.990 | 0.001 | 0.046 | −12.189 | 0.002 | 0.050 | −12.738 | 0.014 | 0.027 |
| Interdisciplinary conference onpatient's behalf | −0.859 | 0.007 | 0.029 | ||||||
| Range of motion/stretching | 0.682 | 0.015 | 0.023 | ||||||
| Therapeutic activities*** | −2.591 | 0.026 | 0.021 | ||||||
*Motor FIM and its component subscores were Rasch transformed.
**All patient and treatment variables listed in Tables 1 and 2 were allowed to enter the models. Only statistically significant predictors are reported here; a missing variable name means that the variable did not predict any of the outcomes in this table; a blank cell means that the variable was not a significant predictor for the outcome examined.
***Therapeutic activities include fine motor activities, tenodesis training, manual therapy, vestibular training, edema management, breathing exercise, cognitive retraining, visual/perceptual training, desensitization, and don/doff adaptive equipment.