Abstract
In an occupational therapy class at the university of rehabilitation, we have introduced experience-based learning, the production of modular-type temporary prostheses, for third-year students from 2013. The purpose of this study was to examine the significance of this experienced-based learning for education about upper limb prosthesis. In the present research, following completion of this learning program, a questionnaire-based survey was administered. The Spearman rank correlation was used to assess the correlation between the data (p=0.05). As a result, a statistically significant correlation coefficient was observed between experience of producing modular-type temporary prostheses, and artificial hands (r=0.53), harnessing (r=0.44), soft dressing (r=0.55), and rigid dressing (r=0.54). The results showed that the introduction of production of modular-type temporary prostheses was effective for learning about artificial limbs.
