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Eligibility criteria include people aged 18 years old, have a major lower limb loss (at the ankle or above), greater than or equal to 3 months post-amputation surgery, using a prosthesis for mobility (beyond transfers), are no longer receiving prosthesis-related rehabilitation care, and understand English. Demographic and clinical characteristics were collected through self-report. Outcome measures collected were the Prosthesis Evaluation Questionnaire Mobility Scale, Perceived Environmental Barriers to Outdoor Mobility Scale, Craig Hospital Inventory of Environmental Factors, and WHO Quality of Life-Brief Questionnaire. Descriptive statistics summarized clinical, demographic, and survey variables. Simple linear regression modeling evaluated the association between environmental barriers and quality of life. Seventy-eight [mean age: 59.3 (14.0) years, 67% male, and 59% transtibial] individuals participated. 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