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Paulette Guitard

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Associate ProfessorRehabilitation SciencesUniversity of Ottawa

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Latest papers

Assistive devices non-use, abandonment, or non-adherence? Toward standard terminology for assistive devices outcomes.
Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA · 2025
Psychosocial predictors of mobility assistive devices non-adherence among older adults.
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology · 2024
The influence of occupational therapy students' preferred language on academic and clinical performance in a Canadian university program.
Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice · 2023 · first author

All 12 publications

12 publications.

Assistive devices non-use, abandonment, or non-adherence? Toward standard terminology for assistive devices outcomes.

Jahan AM, Guitard P, Jutai JW

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA2025

DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2024.2362139 PMID: 38838098

Psychosocial predictors of mobility assistive devices non-adherence among older adults.

Jahan AM, Guitard P, Jutai JW

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology2024

DOI: 10.1080/17483107.2024.2320723 PMID: 38393746

The influence of occupational therapy students' preferred language on academic and clinical performance in a Canadian university program.

Guitard P, Toal-Sullivan D

Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice2023First author

DOI: 10.1007/s10459-023-10226-x PMID: 37222885

[Not Available].

Flowers H, Guitard P, King J, Fitzpatrick E, Bérubé D, Barette JA, Cardinal D, Cavallo S, O'Neil J, Charette M, Côté L, Gurgel-Juarez NC, Toupin-April K, Shallwani SM, Dorion M, Rahman P, Potvin-Gilbert M, Bartolini V, Lewis KB, Martini R, Lagacé J, Galipeau R, Ranger MC, Duquette-Laplante F, Perrier MF, Savard J, Paquet N, Tourigny J, Bérubé ME, Ba Haroon H, Duong P, Bigras J, Capistran J, Loew L

Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada2022

DOI: 10.3138/ptc-2019-0104 PMID: 35185243

The effects of an 8-week knitting program on osteoarthritis symptoms in elderly women: A pilot randomized controlled trial.

Leonard G, Paquet N, Guitard P, Toupin-April K, Cavallo S, Paterson G, Aydin SZ, Bakirci S, Coulombe-Lévêque A, Brosseau L

Journal of bodywork and movement therapies2021

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbmt.2021.04.001 PMID: 34391264

The knitting community-based trial for older women with osteoarthritis of the hands: design and rationale of a randomized controlled trial.

Guitard P, Brosseau L, Wells GA, Paquet N, Paterson G, Toupin-April K, Cavallo S, Aydin SZ, Léonard G, De Angelis G

BMC musculoskeletal disorders2018First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12891-018-1965-2 PMID: 29444664

The Ottawa Panel guidelines on programmes involving therapeutic exercise for the management of hand osteoarthritis†

Brosseau L, Thevenot O, MacKiddie O, Taki J, Wells GA, Guitard P, Léonard G, Paquet N, Aydin SZ, Toupin-April K

Clinical Rehabilitation201819 citations

DOI: 10.1177/0269215518780973

Toilet Grab-Bar Preference and Center of Pressure Deviation During Toilet Transfers in Healthy Seniors, Seniors With Hip Replacements, and Seniors Having Suffered a Stroke.

Kennedy MJ, Arcelus A, Guitard P, Goubran RA, Sveistrup H

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA2015

DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2014.976799 PMID: 26132352

Smart grab bars: a potential initiative to encourage bath grab bar use in community dwelling older adults.

Guitard P, Sveistrup H, Fahim A, Leonard C

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA2013First author

DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2012.732654 PMID: 24020152

Use of different bath grab bar configurations following a balance perturbation.

Guitard P, Sveistrup H, Edwards N, Lockett D

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA2011First author

DOI: 10.1080/10400435.2011.614674 PMID: 22256669

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Paulette Guitard

Research

Latest papers

Assistive devices non-use, abandonment, or non-adherence? Toward standard terminology for assistive devices outcomes.

Psychosocial predictors of mobility assistive devices non-adherence among older adults.

The influence of occupational therapy students' preferred language on academic and clinical performance in a Canadian university program.

[Not Available].

The effects of an 8-week knitting program on osteoarthritis symptoms in elderly women: A pilot randomized controlled trial.

The knitting community-based trial for older women with osteoarthritis of the hands: design and rationale of a randomized controlled trial.

The Ottawa Panel guidelines on programmes involving therapeutic exercise for the management of hand osteoarthritis†

Toilet Grab-Bar Preference and Center of Pressure Deviation During Toilet Transfers in Healthy Seniors, Seniors With Hip Replacements, and Seniors Having Suffered a Stroke.

Smart grab bars: a potential initiative to encourage bath grab bar use in community dwelling older adults.

Use of different bath grab bar configurations following a balance perturbation.

Frequent collaborators

Nicole Paquet

Karine Toupin April

Heidi Sveistrup

Lucie Brosseau

Rose Martini

Marie Westby

Rafik Goubran

Jacinthe Savard

Guillaume Leonard

Nancy Edwards

Wendy Gifford

Carol Leonard

Sabrina Lue

Jocelyne Tourigny

Judy King

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Jennifer O'Neil