Abstract
The aim of this study was to discover the amount of time spent on and some of the content of the training presently available to therapists, both in colleges and from the wheelchair service. The method was a postal questionnaire, which was sent to all colleges of occupational therapy and physiotherapy and to a geographically selected sample of centres in the wheelchair service.
The results indicated that the mean number of hours of training was statistically significantly higher for colleges of occupational therapy compared with colleges of physiotherapy (OT mean=26.19 hours: PT mean=9.66 hours, t=2.52, df=21, p=0.02) and for colleges of occupational therapy compared with the wheelchair service (OT mean=26.19 hours: WS mean=9.41 hours, t=-2.58, df=20, p=0.02). No statistically significant difference was observed between colleges of physiotherapy and the wheelchair service. The results indicated that the situation has improved slightly since the McColl Report in 1986, which recommended changes within the wheelchair service.
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