Table 3. Powered wheelchair user questionnaire background data.
| Identifier | Driving
ability |
Number of years in
wheelchair |
Reason for PWC | Difficulties | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manual | Powered | ||||
| A1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | Physical strength | None at present |
| A2 | 5 | 0 | 20 | Physical strength | Slopes and kerbs |
| A3 | 4 | 14 | 6 | Guillain–Barré syndrome,
neurological and paralysed from waist down |
Clawed hands unable to turn
head to see |
| A4 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Motor neuron disease | Rear visibility, kerbs, obstructions |
| A5 | 4 | 16 | 6 | Spina Bifida | Spatial awareness |
| A6 | 4 | 0 | 12 | Osteoarthritis | Pedestrians not seeing me,
uneven paths/roads and slopes |
| A7 | 4 | 0 | 10 | Ehlers-Danlos syndrome | Tiredness, poor proprioception,
dislocation |
| A8 | 5 | 20 | 15 | Myasthenia gravis | tiredness/weakness/not able to
use on a bad day |
| A9 | 1 | 5 | 2 | Cerebral palsy affecting all
four limbs |
jerkiness of my arms |
| A10 | 1 | 15 | 2 | Cerebral ataxia | spatial awareness |
| A11 | 4 | 0 | 2 | Poor balance/knees | concentration/not able to use on
a bad day |