@article{ref1,
title="Autonomy and housing accessibility among powered mobility device users",
journal="American journal of occupational therapy",
year="2015",
author="Pettersson, Cecilia and Brandt, Ase and Lexell, Eva Månsson and Iwarsson, Susanne",
volume="69",
number="5",
pages="6905290030p1-9",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To describe environmental barriers, accessibility problems, and powered mobility device (PMD) users' autonomy indoors and outdoors; to determine the home environmental barriers that generated the most housing accessibility problems indoors, at entrances, and in the close exterior surroundings; and to examine personal factors and environmental components and their association with indoor and outdoor autonomy. <br><br>METHOD: This cross-sectional study was based on data collected from a sample of 48 PMD users with a spinal cord injury (SCI) using the Impact of Participation and Autonomy and the Housing Enabler instruments. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used. <br><br>RESULTS: More years living with SCI predicted less restriction in autonomy indoors, whereas more functional limitations and accessibility problems related to entrance doors predicted more restriction in autonomy outdoors. <br><br>CONCLUSION: To enable optimized PMD use, practitioners must pay attention to the relationship between client autonomy and housing accessibility problems.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0272-9490",
doi="10.5014/ajot.2015.015347",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2015.015347"
}