Internet-based healthy lifestyle behavior intervention for people with physical disabilities seeks paid participants

United Spinal Association is partnering with the University of Pittsburgh to help develop an internet-based healthy lifestyle behavior intervention, a paid opportunity to address barriers to physical activity and a healthy diet for people with disabilities by using technology to create an Internet-based healthy behavior lifestyle intervention that is tested by participants for usability, feasibility, and accessibility. Up to 20 people with paraplegia (T6 and below) or who have incomplete injury AND who use a manual wheelchair either in the home or community, will be asked to review WHEEL-LEARN lesson content and attend four one-hour online sessions focused on increasing recreational physical activity.

If participants attend all four sessions, they will receive a $200 debit card. The study would run from January 17, 2022 through February 28, 2022, Includes a one-hour online session each week with homework assignment, and the goal is to increase recreational physical activity in people with paraplegia from spinal cord injury and to get their opinions on the usability of the program.

To sign up and for more information, call or email Principal Investigator, Theresa Crytzer, PT, DPT, ATP at (724) 889-5982 or tmc38@pitt.edu.