One of the major impairment causing illness that can leave people permanently disabled 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 per million worldwide. In India, there are between 15 to 20 million cases of SCI annually. The vast majority of SCI patients in India are from rural regions and are between the ages of 18 to 50. After their initial hospital stay, SCI survivors usually undergo rehabilitation at their home, which makes their immediate caregivers to handle the majority of the caregiving activities. For the caregivers, this caregiving duty usually results in considerable psychological stress and additional responsibilities apart from their personal activities. 

To maintain the disease-related health status and well-being of care recipients also to maintain their participation in the community, following the care of individuals with Spinal cord injury gives a significant amount of effort from their immediate family caregivers. Furthermore, the expenses associated with SCI and the requirement for ongoing support from care receivers may cause caregivers to experience financial decline, less social engagement, and an increase in their physical and emotional strain. The burden of caregivers can be influenced by cultural, ethical, religious, and other personal values, making it difficult for most academics to measure, despite the fact that there exist tools to do so.

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