Research suggests that community reintegration(CR) after injury and rehabilitation is difficult for many servicemembers.However, little is known about the influence ofthe contextual factors, both personal and environmental, onCR. Framed within the International Classification of Functioning,Disability and Health and social cognitive theory, thequantitative portion of a larger mixedmethods study of51 injured, communitydwelling servicemembers compared therelative contribution of contextual factors between groups ofservicemembers with different levels of CR. Cluster analysisindicated three groups of servicemembers showing low, moderate,and high levels of CR. Statistical analyses identified contextualfactors that significantly discriminated between CRclusters. Multivariate analysis of variance and discriminantanalysis indicated significant contributions of general selfefficacy,services and assistance barriers, physical and structuralbarriers, attitudes and support barriers, perceived levelof disability and/or handicap, work and school barriers, andpolicy barriers to CR scores. Overall, analyses indicated thatinjured servicemembers with lower CR scores had lower generalselfefficacy scores, reported more difficulty with environmentalbarriers, and reported their injuries as more disabling.
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