Return to work in people with acquired brain injury: association with observed ability to use everyday technology
Engelsk titel: Return to work in people with acquired brain injury: association with observed ability to use everyday technology
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Författare:
Larsson-Lund, Maria
;
Kottorp, Anders
;
Malinowsky, Camilla
Email: maria.larsson-lund@ltu.se
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 45
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 17080176
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Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore how the observed ability to use everyday technology
(ET), intrapersonal capacities and environmental characteristics related to ET use contributes
to the likelihood of return to work in people with ABI. The aim was also to explore whether these
variables added to the likelihood of return to work to earlier defined significant variables in the
group: age, perceived ADL ability and perceived ability in ET use.
Method: A cross-sectional study. The Management of Everyday Technology Assessment (META),
the short version of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (S-ETUQ) and a revised version
of the ADL taxonomy were used to evaluate 74 people with ABI. Individual ability measures from
all assessments were generated by Rasch analyses and used for additional statistical analysis.
Results: The univariate analyses showed that the observed ability to use ET, as well as intrapersonal
capacities and environmental characteristics related to ET use were all significantly associated
with returning to work. In the multivariate analyses, none of these associations remained.
Conclusion: The explanatory precision of return to work in people with ABI increased minimally
by adding the observed ability to use ET and the variables related to ET use when age, perceived
ability in ET use and ADL had been taken in account.