2023 Volume 37 Issue 2 Pages 166-181
Study objective: To examine effects of an educational program for training students in transfer assistance techniques, which are techniques used to transfer a patient between a bed and a wheelchair using a sliding board. Design: Intervention group-control group comparison, and an ABCA design for the intervention group. Setting: A training room at a college. Participants: Occupational therapy students (N=36). Intervention: The intervention group was given the educational program in a baseline phase, intervention 1, intervention 2, and follow-up phase design, whereas the control group had only the baseline phase. Baseline: Screening of video 1, which showed the correct transfer assistance techniques. Intervention 1: Feedback on participants’ performance of the techniques, and verbal praise when more techniques were performed. Intervention 2: Screening of video 2, which had detailed information on the complex procedures. Follow-up: Same as baseline. Measure: The participants’ performance of each of the transfer assistance techniques from bed to wheelchair and from wheelchair to bed. Results: The results showed that the participants in the intervention group performed more of the transfer assistance techniques than those in the control group did. Conclusion: The present results suggest that this educational program using feedback on performance, verbal praise, and detailed video materials may have been effective in increasing the number of transfer assistance techniques performed.
