Health care professionals' experiences and perceptions of health promotion through the health dialogue intervention in the scania region, Sweden: a qualitative interview study.

Background: Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are among the largest public health challenges in Sweden. Research indicates that a healthy lifestyle can prevent most cases. The health dialogue is an evidence-based public health programme for primary care with positive results in several regions of Sweden.

Access to health and rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone - focus group discussions with stakeholders.

Background: In Sierra Leone persons with disabilities are at higher risk of living in poverty and have poor access to a fragile healthcare and rehabilitation services. The aim was to explore stakeholders' perceptions of access to health and rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone.

Methods: Seven focus group discussions, including stakeholders working within the field of disability was conducted.

Coordination of health and rehabilitation services for person with disabilities in Sierra Leone - a stakeholders' perspective.

Purpose: To explore stakeholders' perceptions of the coordination of health and rehabilitation services for persons with disabilities in Sierra Leone.

Materials And Methods: A qualitative study including seven focus group discussions with health, rehabilitation, and disability organisations stakeholders in Sierra Leone. Content analysis was used for data analysis.

Access to basic needs and health care for Malawian prosthetic and orthotic users with lower limb physical disabilities: a cross-sectional study.

Purpose: To investigate access to basic human rights such as health, a standard of living adequate for health, education, work, marrying and establishing a family, and voting for prosthetic and orthotic users with lower limb disabilities in Malawi.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional design and a questionnaire were used to collect data from 83 participants.

Results: Most participants reported their overall physical and mental health as good (60 [72%] and 50 [60%], respectively) and said they could access medical care (69 [83%]).

Experiences accessing and using rehabilitation services for people with physical disabilities in Sierra Leone.

Purpose: To explore the experiences of persons with physical disabilities accessing and using rehabilitation services in Sierra Leone.

Materials And Methods: Interviews of 38 individuals with differing physical disabilities in three locations across Sierra Leone. An inductive approach was applied, and qualitative content analysis used.

Occupational balance and sleep among women.

Background: In occupational therapy, while several studies have focussed on occupational balance, few have investigated it in the context of sleep.

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between sleep and occupational balance among women.

Material And Methods: In total, 157 women responded to the Occupational Balance Questionnaire and Karolinska Sleep Questionnaire.

Professionals' perspectives of prosthetic and orthotic services in Tanzania, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Pakistan.

Background: Evidence-based recommendations are lacking for prosthetic and orthotic services in low- and lower-middle-income countries.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare and synthesise findings related to experiences of prosthetic and orthotic service delivery in Tanzania, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Pakistan from the perspective of local professionals.

Study Design: This is a qualitative inductive study.

Quality of life of prosthetic and orthotic users in South India: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The aim of this study was to compare QOL among people in India using lower-limb prostheses or orthoses with people without disability. A further aim was to compare subgroups and investigate whether QOL was associated with physical disability, gender, income, living area, and education.

Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire study in which the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Bref was used to collect self-reported data.

Access to human rights for persons using prosthetic and orthotic assistive devices in Sierra Leone.

To evaluate the access to human rights of persons with disabilities who use prosthetic and orthotic assistive devices, and to compare groups of participants in terms of gender, residential area, income, and type and level of assistive device. The addressed areas were rights to: health, a standard of living adequate for health, education, marry and establish a family, vote, and work. Questionnaires were used to collect self-reported data from 139 lower-limb prosthetic and orthotic users in Sierra Leone.

Graduates' perceptions of prosthetic and orthotic education and clinical practice in Tanzania and Malawi.

Background: Maintaining and improving the quality of prosthetics and orthotics education at the Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists is essential for the provision of appropriate prosthetics and orthotics services in African countries.

Objectives: To describe how Tanzanian and Malawian graduates' of the Diploma in Orthopaedic Technology perceive their education and how it could be improved or supplemented to facilitate clinical practice of graduates.

Methods: Nineteen graduates from the diploma course in orthopaedic technology were interviewed and phenomenographic analysis was applied to the data.

Living as a person using a lower-limb prosthesis in Nepal.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore experiences of persons in Nepal using lower-limb prostheses, in relation to specific articles in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that consider mobility, education, health, rehabilitation, and work and employment.

Method: Qualitative interviews were conducted with 16 persons using lower limb prostheses. Content analysis was applied to the data.

Patients' Satisfaction with Lower-limb Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices and Service delivery in Sierra Leone and Malawi.

Background: People with disabilities have the right to personal mobility and available and affordable assistive technology, according to the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The aims were to investigate similarities and differences between Sierra Leone and Malawi concerning participants' mobility and satisfaction with their lower-limb prosthetic or orthotic device and related service delivery, and to identify variables associated with patients' satisfaction with assistive devices and associated services in the entire study group from these two low-income countries.

Methods: Questionnaires, including QUEST, were answered by 222 patients in Sierra Leone and Malawi.

Experiences of attitudes in Sierra Leone from the perspective of people with poliomyelitis and amputations using orthotics and prosthetics.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe experiences of attitudes in the society of Sierra Leone from the perspective of individuals with poliomyelitis and people with amputations using orthotic or prosthetic devices.

Methods: Individual interviews were conducted using open-ended questions. Twelve participants with amputations or polio were included.

Mobility and satisfaction with lower-limb prostheses and orthoses among users in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To investigate patients' mobility and satisfaction with their lower-limb prosthetic or orthotic device and related service delivery in Sierra Leone; to compare groups of patients regarding type and level of assistive device, gender, area of residence, income; and to identify factors associated with satisfaction with the assistive device and service.

Methods: A total of 139 patients answered questionnaires, including the Quebec User Evaluation of Satisfaction with Assistive Technology questionnaire (QUEST 2.0).

Malawian prosthetic and orthotic users' mobility and satisfaction with their lower limb assistive device.

Objective: To investigate patients' mobility and satisfaction with their lower limb prosthetic or orthotic device and related service delivery in Malawi and to compare groups of patients regarding type and level of device and demographics.

Methods: Questionnaires were used to collect self-report data from 83 patients.

Results: Ninety percent of prostheses or orthoses were in use by patients, but approximately half of these needed repair.

Experiences of providing prosthetic and orthotic services in Sierra Leone--the local staff's perspective.

Unlabelled: In Sierra Leone, West Africa, there are many people with disabilities in need of rehabilitation services after a long civil war.

Purpose: The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of prosthetic and orthotic service delivery in Sierra Leone from the local staff's perspective.

Method: Fifteen prosthetic and orthotic technicians working at all the rehabilitation centres providing prosthetic and orthotic services in Sierra Leone were interviewed.

Prosthetist/orthotist educational experience & professional development in Pakistan.

Purpose: To explore areas in which the education at the Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic & Orthotic Science (PIPOS) could be improved or supplemented to facilitate clinical practice of graduates. To describe educational opportunities PIPOS graduates have had since their graduation and explore their further educational needs.

Method: 15 graduates from PIPOS participated in semi-structured interviews.