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The influence of a virtual reality leisure intervention program on the motivation of older adult stroke survivors
— a pilot study | | Author(s) | Denise Reid, Tasneem Hirji |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 21, no 4, 2003 |
| Pages | pp 1-20 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. http://www.HaworthPress.com |
| Keywords | Stroke ; Attitude ; Information technology ; Occupational therapy ; Pilot ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Sixteen older adult stroke survivors aged 49-86 from the Greater Toronto area participated in a one time only virtual reality (VR) session. These individuals were observed interacting with a variety of objects within a variety of VR environments that were video recorded. The Volitional Questionnaire was used to measure the degree of volition exhibited by the participants during their VR activities. Descriptive statistics were calculated to derive means and standard deviations of total volitional, depression, life satisfaction and cognitive status scores for each participant. The total volitional mean score was 3.03 with a standard deviation of 0.51. Scores were also correlated with scores of depression and life satisfaction. No significant correlations were found. The results of this study indicate that VR provides a motivating experience for stroke survivors, and has the potential to serve as a successful leisure intervention tool for this population group. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040914207 A |
| Classmark | CQA: DP: UVB: LOH: 4UC: 7S |
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