Organizing future research and intervention efforts on the impact and effects of gender differences on disability and rehabilitation: The usefulness of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

Scherer, Marcia J.; DiCowden, Marie

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“…Pettersson et al saw in their study on electric wheelchair and scooter users that there were different needs among women and men [44]. Scherer and Dicowden [45] state that it is important to take gender and culture into consideration when it comes to technology and rehabilitation, and not allow women to be left behind. In our study, the self-identity of being an attractive woman was said to be difficult in a wheelchair.…”

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Living with an electric wheelchair – the user perspective

Stenberg

Henje

Levi

et al. 2014

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

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PostprintThis is the accepted version of a paper published in Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof-corrections or journal pagination.Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Stenberg, G., Henje, C., Levi, R., Lindström, M. (2016) Living with an electric wheelchair: the user perspective. Disability and AbstractPurpose: To explore the experiences of using an electric wheelchair in daily living.Methods: Fifteen participants, eight women and seven men, living in different parts of a Nordic country were interviewed. The interviews were conducted in the home or workplace.Open-ended questions were used. The data were collected and analysed according to grounded theory.Results: Analysis resulted in one core category: "Integrating the electric wheelchair-a manifold process", describing a process commencing from initial resistance against use of an electric wheelchair, to acceptance with various extent of integration. Six categories emerged that represent this core process: incorporating the electric wheelchair into the self-identity process, calculating functional consequences, encountering the reactions of others, facing duality in movability, using proactive strategies, and being at the mercy of the system.Findings indicate that the integration process is complex and manifold. Practical, personal, and social dimensions were intertwined and significantly involved.Conclusions: Integrating an electric wheelchair is a process closely connected to symbolic value, usability, community mobility, and identity. These aspects should be considered in the production, prescription, and adaptation processes.

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Living with an electric wheelchair – the user perspective

Stenberg

Henje

Levi

et al. 2014

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

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“…16 It is increasingly recognised that research and health interventions should include a focus on gender. [4][5][6]17,18 Although the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health 19 situates gender as a key feature of the environmental and personal context within which functioning and disability occurs, the complexity of personal factors, including gender, evade easy categorisation. 17,20,21 The predominance of white Caucasian men in SCI research is attributed to convenience sampling and epidemiological factors.…”

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“…[4][5][6]17,18 Although the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health 19 situates gender as a key feature of the environmental and personal context within which functioning and disability occurs, the complexity of personal factors, including gender, evade easy categorisation. 17,20,21 The predominance of white Caucasian men in SCI research is attributed to convenience sampling and epidemiological factors. 22 The possible dominance of male concerns in the SCI and health literature results from a combination of factors, including the gender imbalance in sex distribution of SCI, (3.8/1 male to female), 23 and a general tendency in health-care research to adopt a male norm 18,24 or gender neutral focus.…”

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Masculinity lost: a systematic review of qualitative research on men with spinal cord injury

Nolan

2013

Spinal Cord

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Study design: Systematic, thematic, narrative review of qualitative literature. Objectives: To systematically review qualitative research that explores the impact of spinal cord injury (SCI) on the gendered experience of men with SCI. Methods: A systematic search of databases and hand search of relevant journals to provide a thematic narrative review of articles, providing sufficient depth of information, relevant participant quotes and phenomenological insight into the gendered experience of men with SCI. Identified studies are summarised and common themes extracted and discussed in relation to relevant literature on masculinity, disability and health. Results: Eight papers, representing four separate studies met the review criteria for relevance and rigour. Three broad, overlapping themes describing the gendered experience of men with SCI were identified: 'lost masculinity', outlining the impact of SCI on traditional masculine identity, 'fighting back', describing the battle to regain and reclaim masculinity and integrate disability into a revised identity and 'beyond hegemony', referring to possibilities beyond adherence to traditional masculine scripts. Conclusion: This review demonstrates a lack of explicit focus on men as gendered beings within the available qualitative literature. The findings are consistent with the limited quantitative data, which indicates that grappling with altered gendered identity is a central feature of life for men with SCI. Masculine identity emerges in this review as vulnerable to the impact of SCI, and given the strong links identified between masculinity, rehabilitation and health, as an aspect of experience that warrants more attention than it has received.

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“…Moreover, Scherer and DiCowden [23] performed a study on the use of the ICF in research and service provision for WwD: they concluded that ICF has an important practical application for evaluating interventions and they identified the use of the ICF as useful to recognise and emphasise more on Activities and Participation within interventions, suggesting that future research should focus more on the diverse social and psychological concerns of women.…”

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“…This report highlights national available data, source, year of collection and prevalence Furthermore, the proportion of WwD aged 16-64 is 15.6%: 3.1% of women between [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]8.4% between 25-54, and 18.8% between 55-64. These percentages are slightly lower than those of men with disabilities, who represent 16.2% of the total population: 3.6% in the age group [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]8.3% in group 25-54, and 22% in 55-64 range. The report stresses also the lack of a common data source and a time frame at European level for the collection of data on disability, underlined by the lack of a common definition of disability across Europe.…”

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Women with Disability across Europe: Issues on Updated and Available Data

Leonard¹

2014

J Women's Health Care

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The collection of comparable estimates of Women with Disability (WwD) is essential for successful policy-making, and can be directly addressed to the reduction of the barriers that WwD have to face so to achieve full participation in all aspects of their lives. In order to minimize and prevent barriers for WwD, a common policy and a research framework is needed within the European countries. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to underline the issues related to availability, type, and comparability of European data about WwD, and to suggest how to overcome some of the open needs. In particular, the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) issued by the World Health Organization could be the core conceptual model for collecting data and measuring disability, acting as the basis for relevant social policies, since information at all levels on the functioning of WwD is essential for policy purposes.

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Organizing future research and intervention efforts on the impact and effects of gender differences on disability and rehabilitation: The usefulness of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

Cited by 24 publications

References 12 publications

Living with an electric wheelchair – the user perspective

Living with an electric wheelchair – the user perspective

Masculinity lost: a systematic review of qualitative research on men with spinal cord injury

Women with Disability across Europe: Issues on Updated and Available Data

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