abstract: 'Objectives: To examine issues of employment and race for persons with

  spinal cord injury (SCI), by assessing the type of work that was being

  done before and after injury and by placing this in the context of

  patterns for the general population.

  Design: Retrospective, cross-sectional analysis.

  Setting: Centers funded as part of the federally sponsored Model Spinal

  Cord Injury Systems (MSCIS) Project.

  Participants: Two samples: 5925 African Americans and whites with SCI

  who are part of the MSCIS and a subset of 577 people with SCI.

  Interventions: Not applicable.

  Main Outcome Measures: Demographic information, occupational status,

  employment rate, job census codes, Craig Hospital Assessment and

  Reporting Technique-Short Form, and Satisfaction With Life Scale.

  Results: Racial disparities were found in employment rates before injury

  and at 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 years after SCI. Differences were also found

  in the types of jobs that were held before SCI with patterns for

  participants similar to those of African Americans and whites in the

  general population. No differences were found in the types of jobs held

  by African Americans and whites with SCI at 1 year after injury. After

  injury, African Americans had lower economic self-sufficiency scores,

  regardless of employment status, and lower social integration scores

  among those who were not employed.

  Conclusions: Racial disparities found in employment patterns among

  persons with SCI mirrored patterns among the general population.'
affiliation: 'Meade, MA (Corresponding Author), Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Dept Phys
  Med \& Rehabil, Med Ctr, POB 980677, Richmond, VA 23298 USA.

  Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Dept Phys Med \& Rehabil, Med Ctr, Richmond, VA 23298
  USA.

  Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Dept Rehabil Counseling, Richmond, VA 23298 USA.

  Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Dept African Amer Studies, Richmond, VA 23298 USA.'
author: Meade, MA and Lewis, A and Jackson, MN and Hess, DW
author_list:
- family: Meade
  given: MA
- family: Lewis
  given: A
- family: Jackson
  given: MN
- family: Hess
  given: DW
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2004.05.001
eissn: 1532-821X
files: []
issn: 0003-9993
journal: ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
keywords: employment; race; rehabilitation; spinal cord injuries
keywords-plus: 'QUALITY-OF-LIFE; ADJUSTMENT; OUTCOMES; RETURN; WORK; PARTICIPATION;

  SATISFACTION; REGION; WOMEN'
language: English
month: NOV
number: '11'
number-of-cited-references: '83'
orcid-numbers: Meade, Michelle/0000-0002-7840-6364
pages: 1782-1792
papis_id: 2f5234239cfb8333d23e4b9205826a06
ref: Meade2004raceemployment
times-cited: '67'
title: Race, employment, and spinal cord injury
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000225089700007
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '85'
web-of-science-categories: Rehabilitation; Sport Sciences
year: '2004'