Difficulties in using everyday technology after acquired brain injury: a qualitative analysis

Engström, Ann-Louice Lövgreen; Lexell, Jan; Lund, Maria Larsson

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“…It is not only assistive devices that are difficult to learn to use. Using everyday technology is also perceived as difficult for pwABI [22,23], as well as accepting help from others, even though it is well known that pwABI benefit from compensatory techniques [24].…”

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The group rehabilitation helped me adjust to a new life: Experiences shared by persons with an acquired brain injury

2013

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The group rehabilitation helped me adjust to a new life: Experiences shared by persons with an acquired brain injury.Månsson Lexell, Eva; Alkhed, Ann-Kristin; Olsson, Kerstin General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain women with an acquired brain injury who had participated in an out-patient group rehabilitation programme were performed. Data was analysed with qualitative content analysis.Findings: The findings formed the theme "The group rehabilitation helped me adjust to a new life" that revealed experiences related to the content and outcome of the programme, as well as the process they went through during the programme. The participants described how the rehabilitation gave them the tools they needed to change their everyday lives, especially in relation to improved knowledge, and learning new routines and habits. They perceived their rehabilitation as a long-term, individual, but also collaborative process, where professionals as well as family and friends had crucial roles. Conclusion:Learning how persons with acquired brain injury experience participation in a group rehabilitation program can help to unravel parts of the 'black box of rehabilitation', and can support professionals to better understand the effective components of such programmes.3

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The group rehabilitation helped me adjust to a new life: Experiences shared by persons with an acquired brain injury

2013

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“…People with disabilities or older adults with a lack of interest or ability to upgrade their technological possessions and skills are at risk of being excluded. Moreover, studies of people with cognitive impairments due to dementia Starkhammar 2007, Nygård, 2008) or stroke (Lövgreen Engström et al 2010) have shown that these people experience difficulties in managing ETs. The results from these studies highlight the importance of investigating the challenges that people with cognitive impairments may face in their performance of daily activities when using ETs, in order to understand how these difficulties might influence participation.…”

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Design and Management Features of Everyday Technology That Challenge Older Adults

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Nygård

2013

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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“…notes for purchase or ongoing telephone call (6,7), to be used as a reminder (10). For two participants their mobile phones were synchronized with their computer for planning and scheduling activities (2,8). The field notes from the intervention process revealed that the use of new functions in the mobile phone required little new learning before the participants could use them.…”

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“…People with an acquired brain injury (ABI) can experience a wide range of difficulties with daily life tasks, such as self-care, productivity and leisure [1,2], as well as restrictions of participation and decreased quality of life [3][4][5][6][7]. A compensatory approach to reduce remaining disabilities are therefore commonly applied, in rehabilitation in general [4,8,9] as well in occupational therapy [10,11].…”

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Improvements of task performance in daily life after acquired brain injury using commonly available everyday technology

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Lexell²,

Lund³

2010

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

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Purpose: To investigate how individualized occupation-based interventions with commonly available everyday technology (ET) can compensate for perceived difficulties with daily life tasks after an aquired brain injury (ABI) and improve satisfaction with occupational performance. Method: This intervention study was designed as a multiple case study according to Yin. Ten men and women with an ABI (traumatic or non-traumatic) participated. Data were collected through interviews, observations and field notes before and after the intervention and at follow-up (on average 11 weeks afterwards). The interventions focused on enabling each participant's prioritized goals related to task performance in daily life. Results: All participants achieved all their goals by learning to use both new functions in their own familiar ET and new ET. The participants perceived difficulties in occupational performance decreased and their satisfaction with occupational performance increased with the use of ET. Conclusions: An individualised intervention process, involving the use of own familiar ET or ET off-the-shelf, has the potential to compensate for perceived difficulties following an ABI and improve satisfaction with occupational performance in daily life.Key words: activities of daily living; assistive technology; brain injury; occupational therapy; rehabilitation INTRODUCTIONPeople with an acquired brain injury (ABI) can experience a wide range of difficulties with daily life tasks, such as self-care, productivity and leisure [1,2], as well as restrictions of participation and decreased quality of life [3][4][5][6][7]. A compensatory approach to reduce remaining disabilities are therefore commonly applied, in rehabilitation in general [4,8,9] as well in occupational therapy [10,11]. In occupational therapy [11], adapted methods of doing, adaptive equipment and assistive technology (AT) are used to compensate for ineffective actions to improve the performance of daily life tasks that people with an ABI need and want to do to enhance their roles and participation in society.AT comprises low-tech (mechanical) and high-tech (electro-mechanical or computerized) devices [12] and is defind as "any item, piece of equipment, or product system, (acquired commercially off-the-shelf, modified, or customized), that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities" [13]. However, it can be difficult to differentiate AT from everyday technology (ET) objects [14], such as mobile phones and computers, that already exist in peoples' lives and may be used to reduce difficulties in occupational performance.In reviewing the literature about the use and efficency of AT or ET in the form of electronic aids in people with ABI, it was found that a variety of AT, such as palmtop computer, paging system, voice organizer, can reduce memory problems [9,[15][16][17][18][19]. To the best of our knowledge, only one study has used unmodified handheld computers off-the-shelf to compensate for disabilities ...

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Difficulties in using everyday technology after acquired brain injury: a qualitative analysis

Cited by 45 publications

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The group rehabilitation helped me adjust to a new life: Experiences shared by persons with an acquired brain injury

The group rehabilitation helped me adjust to a new life: Experiences shared by persons with an acquired brain injury

Design and Management Features of Everyday Technology That Challenge Older Adults

Improvements of task performance in daily life after acquired brain injury using commonly available everyday technology

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