Katrine Sauvé-Schenk

University of Ottawa · School of Rehabilitation Sciences

Purpose: Following stroke, individuals who live in a low-income or are at risk of living in a low-income situation face challenges with timely access to social services and community resources. Understanding the usual care practices of stroke teams, specifically, how they support this access to services and resources, is an important first step in...

Purpose Finding and accessing social services and community resources are a challenge for stroke survivors and care partners. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify and review interventions that aimed to increase access and use of such services and resources post stroke. Method A systematic review of the published literature was per...

Aims: Occupational performance coaching (OPC) helps people reengage in personally valued occupations despite physical or cognitive challenges. We explored the potential of OPC in the context of assisted living. Methods: An instrumental case study was used. A student occupational therapist provided OPC to one resident in one assisted living facility...

Purpose: The main purpose of this article is to produce a French-Canadian translation of the Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative studies (COREQ) scale under the proposed name "échelle COREQ" and to assess the transcultural validity of its content. The secondary purpose is to examine the inter-rater reliability of the French-Canadian ver...

The objective of this paper is to provide a theoretical and practical understanding of these challenges with re-engagement in personally valued occupations following stroke, as well as to make recommendations to guide practice. First, we review the current understanding of the impact of low income on the experience of rehabilitation and on later pa...

Background.: Late stroke rehabilitation interventions often target impairment with limited carryover to daily occupation. Purpose.: This study explored whether the LSVT BIG program could lead to improved performance in client-identified occupations and decreased impairment late poststroke. Method.: A single-case experimental design with one re...

Purpose: Low income is known to influence participation post stroke, but the process by which this occurs is poorly understood. Methods: A qualitative multiple case study approach, focusing on the experience of returning to participation in personal projects among eight low-income francophone stroke survivors living in eastern Ontario (Canada). Dat...

Purpose: The main purpose is to produce a French-Canadian translation of the "STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology" (STROBE) Statement under the proposed name of "outil STROBE" and to assess the cross-cultural validity of its content. The secondary purpose is to examine its preliminary interrater reliability. Method...

Objective: To examine operational definitions of return-to-work (RTW) after stroke and provide more precise estimates of RTW through meta-analysis. Data Sources: A systematic search was conducted using MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and SCOPUS (2005 to March 26, 2018). The search strategy involved expansion of medical subjective headings using terms r...

Casimiro, L., Savard, J., Sauvé-Schenk, K., Atchessi, N. (2018). Le questionnaire d’aiguillage à l’offre active pour dépister les besoins de formation. Reflets : Revue d’intervention sociale et communautaire, 24(2), 182-211. doi.org/10.7202/1053868ar *****Abstract:Previous research has shown that certain personal characteristics influence the frequ...

Background: Client-centred goal setting is central to the process of enabling occupation. Yet, there are multiple barriers to incorporating client-centred goal setting in practice. We sought to determine what might facilitate or impede the formation of client-centred goals in a context highly supportive of client-centred goal setting Methods: We us...

Objectives: The primary objective was to produce a French-Canadian translation of AMSTAR (a measurement tool to assess systematic reviews) and to examine the validity of the translation's contents. The secondary and tertiary objectives were to assess the inter-rater reliability and factorial construct validity of this French-Canadian version of AMS...

Purpose: To prepare a Canadian French translation of the PEDro Scale under the proposed name l'Échelle PEDro, and to examine the validity of its content. Methods: A modified approach of Vallerand's cross-cultural validation methodology was used, beginning with a parallel back-translation of the PEDro scale by both professional translators and cl...

Purpose: To prepare a Canadian French translation of the PEDro Scale under the proposed name l’E´ chelle PEDro, and to examine the validity of its content. Methods: A modified approach of Vallerand’s cross-cultural validation methodology was used, beginning with a parallel back-translation of the PEDro scale by both professional translators and cli...

Le présent projet touche la formation professionnelle et la collaboration des gestionnaires de programmes de formation postsecondaire sur l’importance de l’offre active des services sociaux et de santé en français. Il rejoint l’objectif du CNFS-Secrétariat national d’appuyer le démarrage d’un projet de recherche d’envergure qui vise à faciliter l’i...

Gel pads are commonly used by occupational therapists in acute care settings to reduce pressure on the coccyx and sacrum in supine. The purpose of this study was to determine the pressure-reducing capabilities of gel pads used in supine and the resultant potential impact on pressure ulcer management. A pressure-mapping system was used to measure in...