Wheelchair service provision education for healthcare professional students, healthcare personnel and educators across low-to high-resourced settings: a scoping …

Y Burrola-Mendez, S Kamalakannan… - Disability and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose This review aimed to collate and summarize available research literature about
wheelchair service provision education available to healthcare professional students …

Wheelchair service provision content in professional rehabilitation organisations' standards documents and contemporary initiatives: A rapid review

M Goldberg, P Rushton, RL Kirby… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose We sought to identify opportunities, challenges, contemporary initiatives and
strategies for preparing entry-level practitioners who are competent at the basic level of …

[HTML][HTML] Wheelchair service provision education in Canadian occupational therapy programs

EM Giesbrecht, PW Rushton, E Dubé - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Occupational therapists in Canada play a central role in wheelchair service provision.
Inadequate entry-to-practice professional education has been identified as a major concern …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the global challenges to accessing appropriate wheelchairs: Position paper

RJ Gowran, N Bray, M Goldberg, P Rushton… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Introduction: Appropriate wheelchairs are often essential for the health and wellbeing of
people with mobility impairments to enhance fundamental freedoms and equal opportunity …

Final year students' knowledge on basic manual wheelchair provision: the state of occupational therapy programs in Colombia

ML Toro-Hernández, L Alvarez… - Occupational …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Access to personal mobility is a human right and as such, it implies the provision of
wheelchair services for those with mobility impairments that need one. Lack of appropriately …

Wheelchair service provision education for healthcare professional students, healthcare personnel and educators across low-to high-resourced settings: a scoping …

S Kamalakannan, PW Rushton… - Disability and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Appropriate wheelchair provision is necessary for addressing participation barriers
experienced by individuals with mobility impairments. Health care professionals involved in …

An exploratory analysis of global trends in wheelchair service provision knowledge across different demographic variables: 2017–2020

M Goldberg, M Alharbi, K Kandavel… - Assistive …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
To explore global trends in manual wheelchair service provision knowledge across
geographic, professional, and socioeconomic domains. A secondary analysis of a dataset …

Provision of paediatric wheelchairs in low resource settings: a scoping review

M Charbonnet, L Sylvester, H Wang… - Disability and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Inadequate wheelchair provision in children can lead to delays in growth and
development, poorer health, and decreased participation. Wheelchair provision for children …

Training physiotherapy students in basic wheelchair provision. Experiences at two universities in Colombia

SE Velasco Forero, NJ Arias Becerra… - Disability and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Wheelchair provision training is essential to overcome barriers related to the lack of
knowledge of health professionals on this topic. Appropriate knowledge of the service …

[HTML][HTML] Psychometric properties of the International Society of Wheelchair Professionals' basic manual wheelchair-service-provision knowledge Test Version 1 and …

Y Burrola-Mendez, RL Kirby, PW Rushton… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Valid and reliable scores from measurement tools to test competency in basic
manual wheelchair-service-provision are needed to promote good practice and support …