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Project Description:
Internet Resource:
Area(s) of Application:
Product Development
Relevant Player(s):
Manufacturer, Dealer, Enduser, University
Thematic Issue(s):
Methods / Strategies, Training/ Methods
Methods/Strategies:
Focus Groups / User Groups, Interviews, Questionnaires
Involving Users in the Evaluation of Assistive Equipment
The European Context For Assistive Technology, Assistive Technology
Research Series
Author:
J. Pascoe, H. Pain, S. Gore, D.L. McLellan, S. Jackson, C. Ballinger
Abstract:
Users and carers have an increasingly important contribution
to make to health care services. Effective consultation between
the health care professional and the user occurs only when the
user can express his/her needs and experiences, and this information
is considered when services or equipment for people with disabilities
is reviewed.
The objective of the Disability Equipment Assessment Centre
is to evaluate commercially available daily living equipment
for people with disabilities. All evaluations involve trials
by users and carers in a range of living situations. The paper
describes the approach to obtain evaluative information about
assistive equipment for daily living activities, which combines
user and carer evaluations, technical tests and therapists evaluation.
Focus groups, questionnaires, structured interviews, therapist
observation and technical tests are used to record information.
Training courses are set up in order to familiarise the user
with the product so that more realistic responses to questions
about the usefulness and specific features of the product may
be elicted.
Editor:
I. Placencia Porrero, R. Puig de la Bellacasa
Publisher:
IOS Press
,
Amsterdam
,
1995
ISBN / ISSN:
9051992203
Relevant Pages:
114-117
Name of Institution
Disability Equipment Assessment Centre, University Rehabilitation
Research Unit Southampton
European Context:
2nd TIDE Congress, 26-28 April 1995, Paris
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