An exploration of well-being with children and young people with complex disabilities, and their families, from using the Innowalk (WEBS study)

Pickering, Dawn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4779-5616 2023. An exploration of well-being with children and young people with complex disabilities, and their families, from using the Innowalk (WEBS study). Presented at: BLS Population Health Research Impact Away Day, SWALEC stadium, Cardiff, 2 Feb 2023.

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Abstract

An exploration of well-being with children and young people with complex disabilities, and their families, from using the Innowalk (WEBS study). Well-being has different definitions and is especially problematic for those whose ability to speak is reduced. Current well-being measures for this population are limited. A post-doc study is currently observing children with a range of disabilities, who are using a robotic device, the © Innowalk (Made for Movement). Research has suggested this device offers health and well-being benefits for non-ambulant people. There is much evidence that supports the benefit of exercise on health and well-being in the general population. However, when a child or young person is unable to do physical exercise, it is unknown what the well-being effects are from a passive form of activity, where the limbs are moved for them. Observations are taking place in a special school where the children and young people participate weekly in this new device. The aim is to recruit ten participants and observe them three times. The observations will be mapped onto the Be-Well and PRIME-O checklists, whilst developing ideas for the constructs relevant to well-being in this population. The participants or their parents will keep a written diary over the intervening period which will be discussed in a final interview, exploring what they consider to be the well-being effects. This will inform the constructs that they consider are relevant to well-being, to inform the design of new well-being measure.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Healthcare Sciences
Subjects:	R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics
Funders:	Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists
Last Modified:	19 Apr 2023 08:24
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156479

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