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Towards a needs-based design of the physical rehabilitation workforce in South Africa: trend analysis [1990–2017] and a 5-year forecasting for the most impactful health conditions based on global burden of disease estimates

ABSTRACT ‘Background:’ Rehabilitation can improve function in many people with chronic health conditions. It is important to consider priority conditions requiring rehabilitation, so it can be realistically positioned and costed in national health financing systems like South Africa (SA)‘s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI). This paper describes temporal trends of top-ranked conditions on years lived […]
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Lockdown-Related Disparities Experienced by People with Disabilities during the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Scoping Review with Thematic Analysis

ABSTRACT People with disabilities may be disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We synthesize the literature on broader health and social impacts on people with disabilities arising from lockdown-related measures. Methods: Scoping review with thematic analysis. Up to mid-September 2020, seven scientific databases and three pre-print servers were searched to identify empirical or perspective papers […]
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Letter to the Editor — Response apropos «Scoping Review on Rehabilitation Scoping Reviews»

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Apropos «Scoping Review on Rehabilitation Scoping Reviews» Dr Dijkers raised some important perspectives. Evaluating methodological quality of primary studies in scoping reviews is an ideal issue for further debate and additional guidance. Although the rationale for assessing methodological quality (ie, risk of bias) in systematic reviews of intervention effectiveness does not […]
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Scoping Review on Rehabilitation Scoping Reviews

ABSTRACT ‘Objective:’ To examine the extent, scope, and methodological quality of rehabilitation scoping reviews. ‘Data Sources:’ A comprehensive list of scoping reviews conducted in the broader health field (inception to July 2014), with a further update of that list (up to February 2017) using similar methods, including searching 9 electronic databases. ‘Study Selection:’ Articles were […]
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Depression or anxiety symptoms associated with occupational role transitions in Brazilian adults with a traumatic spinal cord injury: A multivariate analysis

ABSTRACT ‘Background:’ Psychological morbidity is commonly experienced by people with a spinal cord injury (SCI), but whether it is associated with occupational role transitions in is unknown. ‘Objective:’ To analyze whether anxiety or depression symptoms are independently associated to increased likelihoods of role transitions in adults with SCI. ‘Methods:’ Cross-sectional study; multivariate analysis using a […]
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