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Observational studySpinal cord2024

Effects of wheelchair skills training during peer-led Active Rehabilitation Camps for people with spinal cord injury in Poland: a cohort study.

Tomasz Tasiemski, Piotr Kazimierz Urbański, Sophie Jörgensen, Dawid Feder, Katarzyna Trok, Anestis Divanoglou

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Observational study in Spinal cord, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  5. The Experience of Manual Wheelchair Training for People With Chronic and Progressive Conditions: Perspectives of Users and Trainers.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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Tomasz TasiemskiDepartment of Adapted Physical Activity, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Poznan University of Physical Education, Poznan, Poland. tasiemski@awf.poznan.pl.ORCID 0000-0003-3038-3578
Piotr Kazimierz UrbańskiDepartment of Adapted Physical Activity, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Poznan University of Physical Education, Poznan, Poland.
Sophie JörgensenDepartment of Health Sciences Research Group Rehabilitation Medicine, Lund University, and Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-1454-1655
Dawid FederFoundation for Active Rehabilitation, Warsaw, Poland.
Katarzyna TrokKarolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden.
Anestis DivanoglouDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-7376-6793

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

STUDY

designProspective cohort study.

objectivesTo evaluate the effects of wheelchair skills training (WSTR) for participants with spinal cord injury (SCI) during peer-led Active Rehabilitation Camps (ARC) in Poland. We hypothesized that participation in ARC will improve wheelchair skill performance and self-efficacy in individuals with SCI. We also aimed to determine demographic and injury-related factors associated with greater improvements in wheelchair skill performance and self-efficacy.

settingThirteen consecutive ARCs in Poland.

methodsParticipants (n = 122) with traumatic or nontraumatic SCI older than 16 years were evaluated at the beginning (T1) and completion (T2) of ARC and at 3-month follow-up (T3) through the Queensland Evaluation of Wheelchair Skills (QEWS) and the Wheelchair Skills Test Questionnaire (WST-Q).

resultsAt T2, 43% of participants reached the threshold for substantial clinically meaningful change in QEWS, 73% in WST-Q capacity, and 67% in confidence, with approximately half of those reporting such gains at T3. At a group level, participants achieved small effect-size improvements (QEWS) at T2; large effects in wheelchair skills capacity at T2 and T3; large effects in wheelchair skill confidence at T2, and low effects at T3. Prior attendance to ARC was the only independent variable that explained 10% of variance in wheelchair capacity gains.

conclusionsPeer-led WSTR during ARCs is highly effective at improving wheelchair skills in individuals with SCI. These improvements are largely retained after three months. Persons with SCI should have a chance to participate in more than one camp to maintain and further improve their wheelchair skills.

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Peer GroupPersons with DisabilitiesRehabilitationSpinal Cord InjuriesWheelchairsAdolescentAdultDisability EvaluationFemaleHumansMalePolandProspective StudiesRecreationSelf EfficacySurveys and Questionnaires

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