OTOtherWork (Reading, Mass.)2021

PCQ: Preferred Comfort Questionnaires for product design.

Shabila Anjani, Manon Kühne, Alessandro Naddeo, Susanne Frohriep, Neil Mansfield, Yu Song, Peter Vink

PMID 33337404

WHAT IT FOUND

This paper is not relevant to clinical therapy practice.

It describes a workshop where experts selected questionnaires for evaluating physical comfort in product design, such as seats and hand tools. There are no patient outcomes or therapeutic findings here.

What this paper is

This paper describes a workshop where comfort researchers selected questionnaires for product design (e.g., seats, hand tools). It contains no clinical outcomes, patient data, or therapeutic interventions relevant to physical, occupational, or speech-language therapy practice.

The easy way to misread this

Do not attempt to apply these findings to clinical assessment. The questionnaires discussed are designed for industrial product comfort (e.g., vehicle seats, tools) and have not been validated for diagnosing impairment or tracking patient progress in a healthcare setting.

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