Munera Sara, Goldberg Mary, Kandavel Krithika, Pearlman Jonathan
El Comité de Rehabilitación, Medellin, Colombia.
Rehabilitation Science & Technology, University of Pittsburgh, United States.
Afr J Disabil. 2017 Sep 8;6:360. doi: 10.4102/ajod.v6i0.360. eCollection 2017.
In many countries, availability of basic training and continued professional development programmes in wheelchair services is limited. Therefore, many health professionals lack access to formal training opportunities and new approaches to improve wheelchair service provision. To address this need, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed the WHO Wheelchair Service Training of Trainers Programme (WSTPt), aiming to increase the number of trainers who are well prepared to deliver the WHO Wheelchair Service Training Packages. Despite these efforts, there was no recognised method to prepare trainers to facilitate these training programmes in a standardised manner.
To understand if the WSTPt is an effective mechanism to train aspiring wheelchair service provision trainers.
An action research study was conducted using a mixed-methods approach to data collection and analysis to integrate feedback from questionnaires and focus groups from three WHO WSTPt pilots.
Trainees were satisfied with the WHO WSTPt and the iterative process appears to have helped to improve each subsequent pilot and the final training package.
The WHO WSTPt is an effective mechanism to train wheelchair service provision trainers. This programme has potential to increase the number of trainees and may increase the number of qualified service providers.
在许多国家，轮椅服务方面的基础培训和持续专业发展项目的可获得性有限。因此，许多卫生专业人员缺乏获得正规培训机会以及改善轮椅服务提供的新方法。为满足这一需求，世界卫生组织（WHO）制定了世界卫生组织轮椅服务培训师培训项目（WSTPt），旨在增加准备充分以提供世界卫生组织轮椅服务培训包的培训师数量。尽管做出了这些努力，但尚无公认的方法来使培训师以标准化方式推动这些培训项目。
了解WSTPt是否是培训有抱负的轮椅服务提供培训师的有效机制。
采用行动研究，运用混合方法进行数据收集与分析，整合来自世界卫生组织WSTPt三个试点的问卷和焦点小组的反馈。
学员对世界卫生组织WSTPt感到满意，迭代过程似乎有助于改进每个后续试点及最终培训包。
世界卫生组织WSTPt是培训轮椅服务提供培训师的有效机制。该项目有潜力增加学员数量，并可能增加合格服务提供者的数量。
