Sabine Dielacher

• Magister
• Fachhochschule Gesundheitsberufe Oberösterreich

how to foster digital health literacy of people with chronical illness

Patients with chronic diseases require specific skills for managing their symptoms. Therefore, an education programme for chronically ill people will be developed at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professionals Upper Austria. The programme will comprise six workshops, individual coaching sessions, and regular group meetings.

The presentation will describe a concept of an interdisciplinary internship for students of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy in the field of Occupational Medicine. The main issues are giving information concerning the project that was done between academic staff of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (Physiotherapy and Occupation...

Background: Interdisciplinary cooperation – two different professional groups working together in one team – has been one of the most important goals in health promotion since at least 1978 Alma Ata Declaration and prioritises a guarantee of the best healthcare for the population. For example, long-term musculoskeletal complaints may be avoided thr...

Acquired brain injury, mostly after a stroke or an accident, is a hard cut in a person’s life and often followed by a long process of rehabilitation with many ups and downs. Therapy can be perceived as monotonous due to the (therapeutically necessary) repetitive nature of the tasks. Therapy nowadays does not only involve conventional settings but o...

As previously shown, tabletops can be used in neuro-rehabilitation to train different abilities that have been (temporarily) lost due to acquired brain injury, like motor skills or attention or visuo-constructive skills. However, complex skills like problem solving abilities have been considered only marginally in computer-based rehabilitation syst...

Within the fun.tast.tisch. project, new therapeutic approaches involving an interactive tabletop have been explored. The project did not aim at replacing conventional therapy but at providing optimal support for both therapists and patients. This paper summarizes findings of two years of experience with the system with a focus on patients' and ther...

This publication presents a study that analyses the effectiveness of client-oriented Occupational Therapy methods in Austria concerning improvement of the occupational performance of persons with mental illness. The central research issue had been the question how far client-centred OT treatment enables improvement in the occupational performance o...