Long-term trajectories of community integration after spinal cord injury in a Mediterranean setting: identification, characterisation and trajectory predictors
This retrospective study identified three distinct trajectory classes of community integration outcomes in 238 adults with chronic spinal cord injury in Catalonia over 19 years post-injury using growth mixture modeling. Motor functional independence, depression, and injury severity (tetraplegia vs paraplegia) emerged as significant predictors of different long-term community integration patterns.