Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 10-18 , January 2002

The Wheelchair Skills Test: A pilot study of a new outcome measure

,Revised 3 January 2001 ,Accepted 3 January 2001.

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    Reliability of the WST. In each figure, the total raw scores are plotted and the unity line is shown. (A) Test-retest reliability. Subjects' scores on WSTs 1 and 2 (n = 21, r = .65). (B) Intrarater re

    Reliability of the WST. In each figure, the total raw scores are plotted and the unity line is shown. (A) Test-retest reliability. Subjects' scores on WSTs 1 and 2 (n = 21, r = .65). (B) Intrarater reliability. Scores from 2 evaluations by the same rater (n = 21, r = .96). Two points are superimposed (at x41, y42). (C) Interrater reliability. Scores from the evaluations of 2 different raters (N = 24, r = .95).

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    Rasch analysis of the 20 skills from the WST for which there were sufficient data for the analysis. Six items (indicated by the open boxes) could be eliminated, leaving a unidimensional test of wheelc

    Rasch analysis of the 20 skills from the WST for which there were sufficient data for the analysis. Six items (indicated by the open boxes) could be eliminated, leaving a unidimensional test of wheelchair ability. The dimension line is plotted.

☆ Supported in part by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Research Fund.

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♢ a. Clinical Locomotor Function Laboratory, Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Rehabilitation Centre Site, 1341 Summer St, Halifax, NS B3H 4K4, Canada.

PII: S0003-9993(02)89995-6

doi: 10.1053/apmr.2002.26823

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 83, Issue 1 , Pages 10-18 , January 2002

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