A cross-sectional study on self-management of pressure ulcer prevention in paraplegic patients

Little is known about health activation and self-management behavior in preventing pressure ulcers (PU) in paraplegic patients. Therefore this study aimed to describe the extent of health activation and self-management behavior in paraplegics to prevent PU's and associations between this behavior and patient characteristics.introductionFurthermore, we aimed to find differences in health activation in paraplegics who never had a PU compared to paraplegics with a previous history of PU's or a new-onset PU's.

Source: Journal of Tissue Viability - August 22, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: H.E.W. de Laat, A.C. de Munter, M.J. van der Burg, D.M.J. Ulrich, O. Kloeters Source Type: research