FACTOR ANALYSIS AND RANKING OF ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING BY MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS : Study on planning for improvement of housing environment for spinal cord injurd people (2)

Abstract

In this research, it found the difficulty of the activities of daily living and the relations between ADL of spinal cord injurd people and 4 factors (sex, age, passage years from injurd, rehabilitation terms) by multivariate analysis. The results showed that the level of injury of the people affected the most and the aging affected the next most in all ADL. Thus, from this results, it became easy to anticipate about the degree of independence in ADL, if he has the only information on the level of injury of the person and the person's age.