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Record W4413945987 · doi:10.3390/disabilities5030077

Social Participation of Adults with Spinal Cord Injury During the First Two Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada: An Exploratory Longitudinal Study

2025· article· en· W4413945987 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Noémie Fortin-Bédard, Félix Nindorera, Jean Leblond, Caroline Rahn, Krista L. Best, Jaimie Borisoff, Shane N. Sweet, Kelly P. Arbour‐Nicitopoulos, François Routhier

Bibliographic record

VenueDisabilities · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSpinal Cord Injury Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoBritish Columbia Institute of TechnologyMcGill UniversityCentre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de la Capitale-NationaleUniversité LavalCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéMitacsCraig H. Neilsen Foundation
KeywordsPandemicCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakExploratory researchLongitudinal studySevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Spinal cord injuryMedicineSpinal cordVirologySociologyPsychiatryPathologyOutbreakSocial science

Abstract

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Introduction: The change in environmental and social context during the COVID-19 pandemic affected daily activities of people with spinal cord injury (SCI), their interactions within the community, and, consequently, their social participation during the first wave of the pandemic. However, there is little information about the changes in social participation as the pandemic evolved in Canada. Objective: Our aim was to explore the change in the social participation of adults with SCI after the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Methods: A follow-up from a previous study exploring the social participation of adults with SCI living during the first wave was conducted eight months later (second wave). Social participation was measured using the Assessment of Life Habits (LIFE-H 4.0) and Measure of Quality of the Environment (MQE) among 18 adults with SCI. Results: Participants reported increases between both waves of COVID-19 in some life habit categories, including mobility, personal care and health, nutrition, and recreation. New environmental factors were identified as facilitators, including the increased availability of businesses in the community. Conclusion: These findings indicate that people with SCI experienced greater realization and satisfaction with certain life habits. Although most barriers and facilitators showed little or no change between the two waves, the reduction in environmental barriers and the increase in facilitators may have contributed to improved social participation as the pandemic progressed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.561
Threshold uncertainty score0.621

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.111
GPT teacher head0.427
Teacher spread0.317 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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