Objective: To develop and validate a patient-reported measure of access to information and technology (AIT) for persons with spinal cord injury, stroke, or traumatic brain injury.
Design: A mixed-methods approach was used to develop items, refine them through cognitive interviews, and evaluate their psychometric properties. Item responses were evaluated with the Rasch rating scale model. Correlational and analysis-of-variance methods were used to evaluate construct validity.
Setting: Community-dwelling individuals participated in telephone interviews or traveled to the academic medical centers where this research took place.
Participants: Individuals with a diagnosis of spinal cord injury, stroke, or traumatic brain injury (aged ≥18y, English speaking) participated in cognitive interviews (n=12 persons), field testing of the items (n=305 persons), and validation testing of the final set of items (n=604 persons).
Interventions: Not applicable.
Main Outcome Measures: A set of items to measure AIT for people with disabilities.
Results: A user-friendly multimedia touchscreen was used for self-administration of the items. A 23-item AIT measure demonstrated good evidence of internal consistency reliability, and content and construct validity.
Conclusions: This new AIT measure will enable researchers and clinicians to determine to what extent environmental factors influence health outcomes and social participation in people with disabilities. The AIT measure could also provide disability advocates with more specific and detailed information about environmental factors to lobby for elimination of barriers.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2016.01.027 | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
COVID-19 infection and later risk of sickness absence by socioeconomic status: a cohort study.
BMC Public Health
December 2024
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, TYÖTERVEYSLAITOS, PL 18, Helsinki, 00032, Finland.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic was a significant health risk and resulted in increased sickness absence during the pandemic. This study examines whether a history of COVID-19 infection is associated with a higher risk of subsequent sickness absence.
Methods: In this prospective cohort study, 32,124 public sector employees responded to a survey on COVID-19 infection and lifestyle factors in 2020 and were linked to sickness absence records before (2019) and after (2021-2022) the survey.
Association between biomass cooking fuels and prevalence of tuberculosis among households: a cross-sectional study from 2019 - 2021 in India.
BMC Public Health
December 2024
Department of Chemistry, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Wollega University, P.O. Box 395, Nekemte, Ethiopia.
Background: Indoor air pollution (IAP) is the major contributor (26%) to TB, in addition to other socioeconomic and environmental factors. It occurs in most developing countries like India, where people rely on the combustion of biomass-based solid fuels (low combustion efficiency and high pollution emissions) due to the prevailing socio-economic conditions. However, this cause-and-effect relationship between TB and IAP has not been studied much.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalysis of the implementation value of abdominal B-ultrasound combined with cervical cerclage in the prevention and treatment of late recurrent spontaneous abortion.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
December 2024
Ultrasound Department, Ganzhou Maternal and Child Health Hospital, No. 25, Nankang Road, Zhanggong District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, 341000, China.
Objective: To study the implementation value of abdominal B-ultrasound combined with cervical cerclage in the prevention and treatment of recurrent late abortion.
Methods: From October 2020 to December 2023, 196 pregnant patients who had a history of late abortions at our institution were chosen. They were divided into groups based on the treatments used.
MT-100, a human Tie2-agonistic antibody, improves penile neurovasculature in diabetic mice via the novel target Srpx2.
Exp Mol Med
January 2025
National Research Center for Sexual Medicine and Department of Urology, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
Diabetes is an incurable, chronic disease that can lead to many complications, including angiopathy, peripheral neuropathy, and erectile dysfunction (ED). The angiopoietin-Tie2 signaling pathway plays a critical role in blood vessel development, formation, remodeling, and peripheral nerve regeneration. Therefore, strategies for activating the Tie2 signaling pathway have been developed as potential therapies for neurovascular diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding the coupled relationship between regional longevity and physical geographical environment in Hechi, Guangxi, China.
Sci Rep
December 2024
Department of Infrastructure, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Healthy ageing plays an important role in ageing societies in many countries, and centenarians are a sign of longevity. Longevity and its determinants have become issues of global concern and also a focus of research. Although many disciplines have conducted out a series of studies on longevity phenomena, few studies have systematically considered the impact of geographical environmental factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!