Patients’ Satisfaction with Lower-limb Prosthetic and Orthotic Devices and Service delivery in Sierra Leone and Malawi

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• 作者：Lina Magnusson ; Gerd Ahlström
• 关键词：Assistive device ; Disability ; Low ; income countries ; Mobility ; Orthosis ; Prosthesis ; Satisfaction ; QUEST
• 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：483KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Research;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6963
• 卷排序：17

文摘

BackgroundPeople with disabilities have the right to personal mobility and available and affordable assistive technology, according to the Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The aims were to investigate similarities and differences between Sierra Leone and Malawi concerning participants’ mobility and satisfaction with their lower-limb prosthetic or orthotic device and related service delivery, and to identify variables associated with patients’ satisfaction with assistive devices and associated services in the entire study group from these two low-income countries.