Co-development of a physiotherapist-delivered physical activity intervention for adults with spinal cord injury.

Study Designs: Cross-sectional survey, semi-structured interview, and randomized-controlled trial.

Objectives: Optimal spinal cord injury (SCI)-specific PA intervention strategies appropriate for the physiotherapist setting are unknown. The purpose of this paper is to describe the rigorous co-development process of a theory-based, physiotherapist-led PA intervention for people with SCI and assess its feasibility for implementation in the rehabilitation setting.

Reliability and validity tests of the leisure time physical activity questionnaire for people with spinal cord injury.

Objective: To examine the criterion validity and test-retest reliability of the Leisure Time Physical Activity Questionnaire for People with Spinal Cord Injury (LTPAQ-SCI), a brief measure of leisure time physical activity (LTPA) for people with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Design: Survey with a 1-week follow-up.

Setting: General community.

The role of self-efficacy in the wheelchair skills-physical activity relationship among manual wheelchair users with spinal cord injury.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether self-efficacy can account for the relationship between wheelchair skills and leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in people with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Method: Fifty-four manual wheelchair users with SCI participated in this cross-sectional study. Participants completed a wheelchair skills test, and self-report measures of wheelchair-use self-efficacy, LTPA barrier self-efficacy, and LTPA.