Health Professionals' Experience of Barriers in Empowering People with Spinal Cord Injury: a Qualitative Inquiry.

Empowering an individual with spinal cord injury as far as possible is an experience with various social and cultural aspects. This study investigated health professionals' experiences of barriers in empowering individuals with spinal cord injuries. This was a qualitative inquiry with a conventional content analysis approach.

Activities of daily living independence in Iranian blind war survivors: a cross sectional study, 2008.

Aim: Assessment of activities of daily living (ADL) can be helpful for designing individualized rehabilitation programs for disabled individuals. Measuring and comparing the basic ADL (BADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) independence between middle aged and senior Iranian blind war survivors (IBWS) was the aim of this study.

Methods: This cross-sectional study assessed BADL and IADL of 312 blind war survivors, using the Barthel Index and the Lawton-Bordy scale.

The Persian version of the Berg Balance Scale: inter and intra-rater reliability and construct validity in elderly adults.

Purpose: As a well-known measure for quantifying functional mobility in elderly persons, Berg Balance Scale (BBS) was used in the present study to evaluate its psychometric properties among a sample of 106 elderly individuals speaking Persian language.

Method: After forward-backward translation process, videotapes were recorded from all participants while performing 14 tasks of the BBS. The volunteers were also asked to perform the Timed Up and Go (TUG) test at the same session.