Anthropometric analysis of wheelchair users: methodological factors which influence interpopulational comparison.
This study identified the factors existing in the methods and techniques used in the anthropometric analysis of wheelchair users which may adversely affect inter-population comparisons. Five studies of anthropometric analysis of wheelchair users were examined: Nowak (1996), Jarosz (1996), Das and Kozey (1999), Kozey and Das (2004) and Paquet and Feathers (2004). All the selected studies presented intra- and inter-population data. After having identified the methods and techniques cited, a comparison was made between the procedures used by these authors and those adopted by Barros (2007). The results indicate that inter-population comparison is valid only when there is similarity between the procedures and techniques used to collect data and the functional characteristics of the people evaluated.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Design, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brasil. helda_barros@yahoo.com.br
Helda Oliveira
HO
Barros
Marcelo Márcio
MM
Soares
D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods*; D001837:Body Weights and Measures; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D011153:Population; D011187:Posture; D016059:Range of Motion, Articular; D014910:Wheelchairs