French-Canadian translation, cultural adaptation, and preliminary evaluation of the wheelchair service provision - basic test validity among occupational therapy students
CONCLUSION: The ISWP bWSPT, French-Canadian version, is not internally consistent and demonstrates a non-statistically significant, positive, weak correlation with the final grade of a wheelchair service provision-specific course among a cohort of 35 occupational therapy students.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONThe lack of adequately educated wheelchair service providers is a contributing factor to inappropriate wheelchair provision worldwide.The ISWP Wheelchair Service Provision Basic Test (ISWP bWSPT) has been created to evaluate competency among wheelchair service providers and provides a standardized test recognized internationally.A French-Canadian version of the ISWP bWSPT allows competency testing of French-speaking wheelchair service providers across Canada.This study shows that the French-Canadian version of the test is not internally consistent and has a low correlation with a wheelchair provision-specific course among a cohort of 35 occupational therapy students at a French-Canadian university suggesting further refinement is required to improve its measurement properties in this population of test-takers.PMID:35867645 | DOI:10.1080/17483107.2022.2103188
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation. Assistive Technology. - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Paula W Rushton Diana Kawish-Arbelaez Annabelle Levac-Marquis Karen Fung Genevi ève Daoust Michelle Ishack Mary Goldberg Jon Pearlman Source Type: research
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