Opis
Objectives: Identifying outcome measures for individual assistive technology (AT) interventions, applicable to any kind of assistive products.
Study design: Literature review.
Methods: Three investigators searched and reviewed scientific papers published in sector journals in the past 13 years in relation to AT outcome measures.
Results: 53 papers met the inclusion criteria. Overall, they describe 86 measures. 37 of them were found to be related to the outcome of the whole rehabilitation process rather than to AT purposely. 41 are restricted to specific categories of AT products. Only five are actually applicable to any AT products: FIATS, IPPA, PIADS, QUEST, and SCAI. In addition, three further measures were found that - although unable to fully capture the AT outcome if used alone - can add useful information on the quality of the AT intervention (KWAZO, SATS) and the individual predisposition to AT use (ATD-PA).
Conclusions: A careful monitoring of the achieved outcome is an essential aspect of any individual AT interventions. This study provides a list of measures
that help monitoring the intervention effectiveness and cost.
Subject (according to the ISO classification of assistive products)
- Medicinski pripomočki za merjenje, podporo, urjenje ali nadomeščanje funkcij telesa (ISO 04)
- PRIPOMOČKI, NAMEŠČENI NA TELESU ZA PODPORO ŽIVČNOMIŠIČNIM FUNKCIJAM ALI GIBANJU (ORTOZE) IN NADOMEŠČANJU ANATOMSKIH STRUKTUR (PROTEZE) (ISO 06)
- PRIPOMOČKI ZA AKTIVNOST IN SODELOVANJE PRI OSEBNI NEGI (ISO 09)
- PRIPOMOČKI ZA AKTIVNOSTI IN PARTICIPACIJO V ZVEZI Z OSEBNO MOBILNOSTJO IN PREVOZOM (ISO 12)
- PRIPOMOČKI ZA GOSPODINJSKE AKTIVNOSTI IN PARTICIPACIJO DOMA (ISO 15)
- POHIŠTVO, OPREMA, PRIPOMOČKI IN PRILAGODITVE BIVALNIH IN DRUGIH PROSTOROV (znotraj in zunaj) (ISO 18)
- PRIPOMOČKI ZA KOMUNIKACIJO IN INFORMACIJE (ISO 22)
- PRIPOMOČKI ZA NADZOR, PRENAŠANJE, PREMIKANJE IN ROKOVANJE S PREDMETI IN NAPRAVAMI (ISO 24)
- PRIPOMOČKI ZA NADZOR, PRILAGAJANJE ALI MERJENJE ELEMENTOV V FIZIČNEM OKOLJU (ISO 27)
- PRIPOMOČKI ZA DELOVNE AKTIVNOSTI IN VKLJUČEVANJE V ZAPOSLITVI (ISO 28)
- PRIPOMOČKI ZA REKREACIJO IN PROSTI ČAS (ISO 30)
