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Objective To assess the effectiveness of group wheelchair skills training to elicit improvements in wheelchair skills. Design Randomized double-blinded controlled trial. Setting Four Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Centers. Participants Man[...]Article
Lynn A. Worobey ; Lee R. Kirby ; Rachel E. Cowan ; Trevor A. Dyson-Hudson ; Mary Shea ; Allen W. Heinemann ; Jessica Presperin Pedersen ; Michael L. Boninger |Objective To test the hypotheses that remote training improves trainer confidence and when these trainers train others the capacity and confidence of the trainees improves. Design Cohort study with pre- vs posttraining comparisons. Setti[...]Article
Objectives To test the hypotheses that, in comparison with a control group that received standard care, users of manual wheelchairs who also received the French-Canadian version of the Wheelchair Skills Training Program (WSTP) would significant[...]Article
Objective To test the hypothesis that caregivers enhance the wheelchair skills capacity and confidence of the power wheelchair users to whom they provide assistance, and to describe the nature of that assistance. Design Multicenter cross-secti[...]Article
Objectives To (1) document the success of learners' attempts to overcome a threshold in a manual wheelchair while using the momentum method; (2) describe the frequency and nature of any errors observed; and (3) compare the characteristics of pa[...]Article
Objective To test the hypotheses that people with hemiplegia using arms and legs to propel their wheelchairs perform better backward than forward and prefer the backward direction. Design Within-participant cross-sectional design. Participants[...]Article
"Objectives To determine wheelchair (WC) skills success rates for manual WC users with spinal cord injury (SCI), to determine subject characteristics associated with the lowest success rates of WC skills, and to characterize the relationship bet[...]Article
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Objectives To test the hypotheses that self-reported manual wheelchair skills capacity and performance are highly correlated and that capacity significantly exceeds performance. Design Cross-sectional. Setting Rehabilitation center. Participa[...]Article
"Objectives To test the hypothesis that the total scores of the Wheelchair Skills Test (WST) version 4.1, an observer-rated scale of wheelchair performance, and the Wheelchair Skills Test Questionnaire (WST-Q) version 4.1, a self-report of wheel[...]Article
Objective To explore the relationships between wheelchair services received during wheelchair provision and positive outcomes for users of wheelchairs. Design Secondary analysis of cross-sectional data. Setting Urban and periurban com[...]Article
Sussan Askari ; Lee R. Kirby ; Kim Parker ; et al. |Objective To develop and assess some of the measurement properties of a simple and inexpensive test that can be used to evaluate the wheelchair mobility of manual wheelchair users. Design The initial phase of the study was developmental and de[...]Article
Objectives To describe the wheelchair skills capacity and performance of experienced manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury (SCI) and to assess measurement properties of the Wheelchair Skills Test (WST) and Wheelchair Skills Test Quest[...]
