Wheelchair skills test questionnaire for manual and powered wheelchair users: arabic translation, adaptation, and validation

Description

Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak brings a standard wheelchair skills questionnaire to Arabic speakers for the first time. Over eighty million people need wheelchairs, yet without training many never master the skills that make the devices liberating. The Wheelchair Skills Test Questionnaire sets a baseline for training, but no validated Arabic version existed.

The translation followed five stages, from forward translation through expert review to field testing, and covered both manual and powered chair versions. Forty-eight users at three rehabilitation hospitals, averaging thirty-six years old and seven years of chair experience, took the final forms. Both versions were highly consistent internally, and repeat testing two weeks apart agreed almost perfectly. Scores also matched two established Arabic scales. The author offers the tools for clinics and studies across the Arabic-speaking world.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13233411