Improving self-efficacy in spinal cord injury patients through "design thinking" rehabilitation workshops.

ABSTRACT: Advances in surgical and medical management have significantly reduced the length of time that patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) have to stay in hospital, but has left patients with potentially less time to psychologically adjust. Following a pilot in 2012, this project was designed to test the effect of "design thinking" workshops on the self-efficacy of people undergoing rehabilitation following spinal injuries. Design thinking is about understanding the approaches and methods that designers use and then applying these to think creatively about problems and suggest ways to solve them. In this instance, design thinking is not about designing new products (although the approaches can be used to do this) but about developing a long term creative and explorative mind-set through skills

SUBMITTER: Wolstenholme D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4949616 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature