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Evaluation of Low-Tech Client Transfer Devices Used by Home Care Aides
- Source :
- Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 59:1264-1268
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2015.
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Abstract
- Home care tasks, such as patient lifting and transferring, involve forceful exertions and awkward postures and may increase the risk of low back injury. Sixteen home care aides completed simulated client transfers between a bed and wheelchair using a manual transfer method and four transfer devices. Findings suggested that high (bed) to low (wheelchair) transfers produced significant lower hand forces than low to high transfers, while the hand forces using the Beasy board and the Tyvek board were less than the manual’s during transfers in both directions. Average trunk flexion speeds were significantly slower while using devices than using the manual method during these transfers. The usability survey suggests that the Beasy board required less exertion and would be preferred for future client visits.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Trunk flexion
05 social sciences
Home Care Aides
Usability
050105 experimental psychology
Medical Terminology
Patient Lifting
Wheelchair
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Transfer (computing)
medicine
Physical therapy
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
business
050107 human factors
Low back
Medical Assisting and Transcription
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10711813 and 21695067
- Volume :
- 59
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........32bcb4cb4b98b7c8075dbb7eff2a5bf5
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931215591203