Mobility and Dual Tasking in the Everyday Lives of Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: A Qualitative Exploration.

IF 1.7 3区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Print Date: 2023-10-01 DOI:10.1123/apaq.2022-0161

Michael VanNostrand, Katie Emberley, Erin Cairns, Kristina Shanahan, Susan L Kasser

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Abstract

Objective: The purpose of the study was to understand how people with multiple sclerosis experience dual-tasking situations in their everyday lives.

Methods: Focus groups involving a total of 11 individuals with multiple sclerosis (eight females and three males) participated in this qualitative inquiry. Participants were asked open-ended questions focused on the nature of and consequences around dual tasking when standing or walking. Reflexive thematic analysis was employed to examine the data.

Results: Three themes were generated from the data: (a) Life Is a Dual Task, (b) The Social Divide, and (c) Sacrifices for Stability.

Conclusions: This study highlights the significance and impact of dual tasking on the lived experience of adults with multiple sclerosis, furthering the need to more fully examine this phenomenon and potentially improve fall-prevention interventions and facilitate community participation.

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多发性硬化症成年人日常生活中的移动性和双重任务：定性探索。

目的：本研究的目的是了解多发性硬化症患者在日常生活中如何经历双重任务的情况。方法：共有11名多发性硬化症患者（8名女性和3名男性）参加了本次定性调查。参与者被问及开放式问题，重点是站立或行走时双重任务的性质和后果。采用自反主题分析法对数据进行检验。结果：从数据中产生了三个主题：（a）生活是双重任务，（b）社会鸿沟，以及（c）为稳定而牺牲。结论：这项研究强调了双重任务对多发性硬化症成年人生活体验的重要性和影响，进一步需要更全面地研究这一现象，并可能改进跌倒预防干预措施，促进社区参与。

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Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 医学-康复医学

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

10.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance. The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting. Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span. Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology. Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.