Kathleen Melei

Kathleen Melei
Huntington University · OTD

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Introduction
Kathleen Melei received her doctorate of occupational therapy (OTD) from Huntington University. Kathleen does research in Rehabilitation Medicine, Geriatrics, Behavioral Health, and Allied Health Science and currently works in outpatient pediatrics. Her current project is her doctoral capstone project titled: "Development of a Community-Based Program to Address Older Adult Mental Health Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic with an Occupational Therapy Approach"
Additional affiliations
November 2018 - March 2020
Notre Dame University
Position
  • Research Assistant
Education
August 2018 - May 2021
Huntington University
Field of study
  • Occupational Therapy
August 2014 - May 2018
Saint Mary's College Indiana
Field of study
  • Psychology, Gerontology, Biology

Publications

Publications (12)
Poster
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Final Presentation of Doctoral Capstone Project 2021
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Abstract This study and its components were part of an OTD (Doctor of Occupational Therapy) capstone project that is working develop a program to address social isolation and loneliness within the older adult population during COVID-19. The current study served as a qualitative follow-up for results from a previous study conducted by the primary...
Preprint
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The current study evaluated the relationship between social participation and quality of life (QoL) for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Community-dwelling adults (N = 230) age 65 or older completed an online survey providing demographic data to identify changes in lifestyle routine during the pandemic using the COVID-19 Quality of Life (...
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Background: Social isolation during COVID-19 has the capacity to impact older adults’ physical health, mental health, and quality of life. Using an occupational therapy perspective of social participation as an occupation, the current study explores (a) the extent to which social participation (habits/routines) has changed following the onset of th...
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Abstract Purpose: The purpose of this case-series study was to assess the relationship between three instructional methods that fall within the parameters of the revised Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education fieldwork objective C.1.9 and perceived student competence and confidence in providing therapy services in a behavioral hea...
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The purpose of this study was to explore the unique experiences of older adults amidst the COVID-19 pandemic to further understand the relationship between social participation and quality of life (QOL). Utilizing survey and interview responses from community-dwelling older adults, current evidence, and an occupational therapy perspective, a commun...
Poster
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The purpose of this study was to investigate how emotion and arousal during an ongoing task interact to effect older adults' performance on a prospective memory task.
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Prospective memory (PM) is characterized by memory for a planned action at a specific time in the future while being involved in an ongoing activity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an emotionally arousing ongoing task on PM. It was predicted that, overall, emotion would impact PM to a greater extent than arousal and PM w...

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