为轮椅使用者提供动力个人转移系统的参与行动设计和工程:初步设计和评估
Shantanu A Satpute1,2,3, Jorge Luis Candiotti1,2,3, Jonathan A Duvall1,2
1Human Engineering Research Laboratories, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 8, 2023
概括
一个新的动力个人转移系统 (PPTS) 为轮椅转移提供了无升降解决方案,降低了护理人员受伤的风险. 最终用户报告了积极的印象,强调了增加独立性和更安全的转移的潜力.
科学领域:
- 机器人技术 机器人技术 机器人技术
- 辅助技术 辅助技术 辅助技术
- 人类因素工程 人类因素工程
背景情况:
- 轮椅转移给护理人员带来了严重的背痛和职业伤害的风险.
- 现有的转移方法往往需要大量的体力和护理人员的协助.
- 需要创新的解决方案来提高患者转移期间的安全性和独立性.
研究的目的:
- 描述动力个人传输系统 (PPTS) 的原型.
- 评估最终用户对轮椅转移PPTS的看法.
- 确定未来机器人传输系统设计中需要改进的领域.
主要方法:
- 该研究采用了参与式行动设计和工程 (PADE) 过程.
- 开发了一种原型PPTS,集成了一张电动医院床和一辆电动轮椅 (EPW).
- 通过焦点小组,从36名参与者 (18名轮椅使用者,18名护理人员) 收集了定性反.
主要成果:
- 参与者报告了对PPTS的整体积极印象.
- 护理人员预计,通过PPTS,伤害风险降低,转移更容易.
- 确定的局限性包括需要在轮椅上提供动力座椅功能和增强的用户界面.
结论:
- 作为一个机器人转移系统,PPTS显示出增强动力轮椅用户独立性的承诺.
- 该系统为手动转移提供了潜在的更安全的替代方案,减少了护理人员的压力.
- 用户反为改进传输系统的未来代提供了宝贵的见解.
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