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Jessica E. Rispin

Bio: Jessica E. Rispin is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wheelchair. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 55 citations.
Topics: Wheelchair

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TL;DR: Reliability of the performance component of the WST 4.1 was excellent, whereas ICCs for the safety component indicated only slight to fair agreement, probably because of the low variability in safety scores.

59 citations


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TL;DR: For people with SCI who use a manual WC as their primary means of mobility, their ability to perform manual WC skills is associated with higher community participation and life satisfaction and after controlling for covariates, better self-perceived health, higher life satisfaction, and more community participation are predicted.

90 citations

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TL;DR: A peer-led MWC training program improves wheelchair use self-efficacy in adult MWC users and had a positive influence on other wheelchair-related outcomes.

66 citations

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TL;DR: WheelCon-M 2.1 has high internal consistency, strong retest reliability, and support for concurrent validity, construct validity and responsiveness, and this new test holds promise as a clinical and research tool.
Abstract: Submitted November 21, 2011; accepted August 10, 2012INTRODUCTIONPopulation estimates suggest that the number of people who require a wheelchair for mobility is approximately 65 million worldwide (1). In the United States and in Canada there are ap-proximately 2,702,000 and 155,000 individuals, respectively, who use wheelchairs (2, 3). Adults and older adults account for 90% of the Canadian wheelchair population (3, 4). Given that the number of Canadian adults is projected to double by 2026 (4), the number of people with mobility-related disabilities who need wheelchairs will also likely increase.Over half of Canadian wheelchair users require assistance with using their wheelchair and with activities of daily living (3). To enable provision of appropriate interventions, it is important to determine the reasons why wheelchair users are having these difficulties. The literature exploring factors af-fecting wheelchair use is mainly comprised of variables related to the environment and physical attributes of the wheelchair users. These predictive models, however, only account for a modest amount of the variance (5, 6). More information is needed in order to enhance wheelchair users’ independence with their chosen daily activities. It seems plausible that psychological factors may help to explain variations in wheelchair use. Confidence refers to one’s belief in his or her capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments (7). It has been found to be a stronger predictor of behavior than actual skills or abilities (8). Judgments of confidence play a major role in determining whether to perform a behavior, the degree of effort to invest, and the length of time one will persist in a given activity (7). Therefore, it may be that low confidence with wheelchair use might lead to self-imposed restrictions.Confidence has been identified as an important construct to consider in the areas of wheelchair skills training (9), wheel-chair provision (10), and abandonment of assistive technology (11). Importantly, confidence has also been identified as a pos-sible contributor to the gap between the capacity to perform wheelchair skills (what the wheelchair user can do) and the actual performance of wheelchair skills (what the wheelchair user actually does) (12). Recently, we developed an outcome measure designed to assess confidence with manual wheelchair use, the Wheelchair Use Confidence Scale, or WheelCon-M (13). Fliess-Douer et al. (14) have independently done the same. The objective of this study was to evaluate the measure-ment properties of the WheelCon-M 2.1. We have previously reported on the development of the tool and its content validity (13). For this study, we hypothesized that the WheelCon-M

60 citations

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TL;DR: Two 1-hour WSTP sessions improve confidence with using a manual wheelchair among older adults who are inexperienced wheelchair users and had greater effects in areas related to maneuvering around the physical environment, knowledge and problem solving, advocacy, and managing emotions.

56 citations

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TL;DR: WST and W ST-Q version 4.1 capacity scores are highly correlated although the WST-Q scores are slightly higher, indicating an overestimation of capacity to perform wheelchair skills as compared with actual capacity.

53 citations