Reliability and Validity of the ISNCSCI in Patients With Non-traumatic Spinal Cord Lesions

I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione Santa Lucia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Spinal Cord Injuries

Treatments: Other: rehabilitation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04949763

CE/PROG.838 29-05-20

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim of the study is to assess the psychometric properties of the International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury in subjects with non traumatic lesions.

Full description

All patients with non-traumatic SCI consecutively admitted to three Italian SCI centers (IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Montecatone Rehabilitation Hospital and Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS of Pavia) between January 1st 2017 and June 30th 2020 have been prospectively enrolled in the study.

Enrollment: 140 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having a non-traumatic SCI
• acute / subacute phase
• any level and severity (ASIA Impairment Scale) of injury
• having a cognitive status that allows collaboration in the exam.

Exclusion criteria

• presence of dementia or cognitive decline;
• having a pathology of the peripheral nervous system that may affect the evaluation of ISNCSCI;
• having a multiple sclerosis

Trial design