Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals Educational Conference 2016 Omni Nashville Hotel and Music City Center September 4–7, 2016 Presentation abstracts 1–58
1. A LATENT STRUCTURAL MODEL OF HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND PRESSURE ULCERS Chao Li, Yue Cao, James S. Krause College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA Objective: To develop a latent structural model to demonstrate the relationship between factor structures of health behaviors and current pressure ulcer status among participants with spinal cord injury. Design: A sample of 2547 participants with traumatic spinal cord injury of at least 1-year duration were recruited from a large specialty hospital in the Southeastern USA, with data analyzed in a Southeastern medical university. Methods: Multiple latent health behavior indicators were developed, including: (1) alcohol consumption, (2) smoking, (3) unhealthy nutrition, (4) fitness, (5) spinal cord injury health activities, and (6) healthy nutrition. All these latent health behaviors were further linked with a higher dimension classified as risk and protective dimensions. Dichotomized current pressure ulcer status was included as the main outcome measure. Latent variable structural equation modeling was performed to assess the relationship between health behaviors and current pressure ulcer status. Results: The model fit indices for the hypothetical model were acceptable for the suggested level (χ2 =2054.547, df=267, χ2/df=7.69, P
1. A LATENT STRUCTURAL MODEL OF HEALTH BEHAVIORS AND PRESSURE ULCERS Chao Li, Yue Cao, James S. Krause College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA Objective: To develop a latent structural model to demonstrate the relationship between factor structures of health behaviors and current pressure ulcer status among participants with spinal cord injury. Design: A sample of 2547 participants with traumatic spinal cord injury of at least 1-year duration were recruited from a large specialty hospital in the Southeastern USA, with data analyzed in a Southeastern medical university. Methods: Multiple latent health behavior indicators were developed, including: (1) alcohol consumption, (2) smoking, (3) unhealthy nutrition, (4) fitness, (5) spinal cord injury health activities, and (6) healthy nutrition. All these latent health behaviors were further linked with a higher dimension classified as risk and protective dimensions. Dichotomized current pressure ulcer status was included as the main outcome measure. Latent variable structural equation modeling was performed to assess the relationship between health behaviors and current pressure ulcer status. Results: The model fit indices for the hypothetical model were acceptable for the suggested level (χ2 =2054.547, df=267, χ2/df=7.69, P
