Autonomy and Housing Accessibility Among Powered Mobility Device Users
2014 (English)In: American Journal of Occupational Therapy, ISSN 0272-9490, E-ISSN 1943-7676, Vol. 69, no 5, article id 6905290030Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
OBJECTIVE: To describe environmental barriers, accessibility problems, and powered mobility device (PMD) users' autonomy indoors and outdoors; to determine the home environmental barriers that generated the most housing accessibility problems indoors, at entrances, and in the close exterior surroundings; and to examine personal factors and environmental components and their association with indoor and outdoor autonomy.
METHOD: This cross-sectional study was based on data collected from a sample of 48 PMD users with a spinal cord injury (SCI) using the Impact of Participation and Autonomy and the Housing Enabler instruments. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used.
RESULTS: More years living with SCI predicted less restriction in autonomy indoors, whereas more functional limitations and accessibility problems related to entrance doors predicted more restriction in autonomy outdoors.
CONCLUSION: To enable optimized PMD use, practitioners must pay attention to the relationship between client autonomy and housing accessibility problems.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. , 2014. Vol. 69, no 5, article id 6905290030
National Category
Occupational Therapy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-72147DOI: 10.5014/ajot.2015.015347PubMedID: 26356666Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84941241779OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-72147DiVA, id: diva2:1286449
2019-02-062019-02-062019-02-14Bibliographically approved