Article

The goals of this article are to describe participation as a transaction and
issues involved in measuring and intervening using this transactional approach;
describe ecologic and systems-based theoretic approaches for conceptualizing
person-task-environment transactions; and illustrate examples of an exploratory
strategy, radar plots, as a clinical tool for rehabilitation professionals to
show this interaction and use it to inform participation-focused interventions
with people with disabilities in rehabilitation settings. Participation
necessarily occurs at the intersection of what the person can do, wants to do,
has the opportunity to do, and is not prevented from doing. It is a transaction
that occurs at the nexus of the person-task-environment. Measurement of
participation should capture this transactive nature. Radar plots are part of a
group of graphic displays frequently referred to as exploratory data analysis. In
situations in which theory is not well developed, exploratory techniques such as
radar plots may hold promise as ways to explore better the relationship among
variables. This article describes strengths and limitations of radar plots and
presents an example with data from the Community Participation Database.
CI - Copyright 2010 American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine. Published by
Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Langue : ANGLAIS