Making a Kannada Version and to find the accuracy of Caregiver Burden Inventory - Spinal Cord Injury Questionnaire to Understand the Challenges Faced by Caregivers of Spinal Cord Injury Patients in Karnataka, India

Not yet recruiting

Conditions: caregivers of Spinal cord injury survivors

Registration Number: CTRI/2025/06/088374

Lead Sponsor: Father Muller college of Physiotherapy

Brief Summary: Oneof the major impairment causing illness that can leave people permanentlydisabled and make them unable to take care of themselves is spinal cord injury(SCI). The incidence of Spinal cord Injury varies between 11.5 and 57.8 permillion worldwide. In India, there are between 15 to 20million cases of SCI annually. The vast majority of SCI patientsin India are from rural regions and are between the ages of 18 to 50. After theirinitial hospital stay, SCI survivors usually undergo rehabilitation at theirhome, which makes their immediate caregivers to handle the majority of thecaregiving activities. For the caregivers, this caregiving dutyusually results in considerable psychological stress and additionalresponsibilities apart from their personal activities.

To maintain thedisease-related health status and well-being of care recipients also to maintaintheir participation in the community, following the care of individuals withSpinal cord injury gives a significant amount of effort from their immediatefamily caregivers. Furthermore, the expenses associated with SCIand the requirement for ongoing support from care receivers may causecaregivers to experience financial decline, less social engagement, and anincrease in their physical and emotional strain. The burden ofcaregivers can be influenced by cultural, ethical, religious, and otherpersonal values, making it difficult for most academics to measure, despite thefact that there exist tools to do so.

Comprising of five subscales, the CBI-SCI self-reportedquestionnaire was created in 2019 to evaluate the effects of caregiver stresson many domains: time-dependent burden, developmental burden, physical burden,social burden, and emotional burden. As most of the SCIsurvivors are from rural backgrounds, a dearth of literature in outcomes thatmeasure caregiver burden in a regional language for the people living inKarnataka, India. Hence there is a need to translate and validate outcomes forimmediate caregivers of spinal cord injury survivors in Karnataka, India.

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Not Yet Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion criteria is not applicable as my study does not any patients.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Caregiver burden inventory - spinal cord injury (CBI-SCI) Scale.	Kannada translation and content validation over 1 year of time duration

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method

Trial Locations

Locations (1): Father Muller Medical College Hospital
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Kannada, KARNATAKA, India
Father Muller Medical College Hospital
🇮🇳Kannada, KARNATAKA, India
Vimith V Saldanha
Principal investigator
06361324448
vimithflarishsaldanha@gmail.com