Occupational Therapy - Science topic

Productivity is something very important at this time since it allows not only the appropriation of new scientific knowledge but also the development of investigative skills to take into account when carrying out other investigations. Having mastery of these tools can make a scientific leader a fundamental axis in scientific production and have accurate results in research.

I like your "Future trends in health professions education" chapter because the education of a healthcare professional is of foremost relevance in his or her functioning as that professional. And the future should rely on the past to mold the techniques in schooling. I wish you success in your chapter-writing as some of my published papers have been referenced in chapters in books. Good luck!

In Serbia you have clinical defectology which is basically the same thing as OT, and there is "work therapy" so you should consider history as combination of those two.

He you can found the role and different program in post-stroke intervention:

Rowland TJ, Cooke DM, Gustafsson LA. Role of occupational therapy after stroke. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2008 Jan;11(Suppl 1):S99-S107. PMID: 35721442; PMCID: PMC9204113.

Contact the author Petra Wagman, article is link attached for reference

Unless you are sure that each Likert score is an equal distance from the next (such as the difference between a 1 and 2 equals the difference between a 4 and 5), I don't believe it is appropriate to do arithmetic with Likert scores except count them and calculate a mode.

What does it mean to take an average of Disliked a Lot and Disliked a Little?

Also check the following very good link:

Yes I can

My response included the phrase "permission to USE the article in your work situation." Is there a way that I could have phrased that more clearly?

I suggest you search the standard tools in new articles in this area

No pen / pecil . Only mouse . In most of the tab there is an option for dogital pencil - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/528680443750445959/

Shweta Singh Fantastic. Thank you very much. We are asking (neuro)psychologists, neurosurgeons, speech-language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and psychotherapists to participate. If you have a few contacts you would like to share, please message me privately. We will be happy to reach out to these people directly, if it helps save your time. I am also providing my email address: MPolczynska@mendet.ucla.edu just in case. Best wishes, Monika

Dear-Tshephisho Simon Mohlaba I think you should visit to this sites https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/question-and-answers-hub/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.

I recommend following (inviting) Juman Simaan (you can connect with him here) into this conversation.

Also, you might be interested in our Contexts of Participation tool - there's an article about it but also a website to explore it: https://contextsofparticipation.org/

It's quite useful for thinking about wider barriers, which of course can include issues of occupational injustice.

Task-based interventions are highly effective for gait and ambulation among patients with chronic CVA and TBI provided that a sufficient intensity is maintained.

Currently I am living in Bolivia and most of the Hospital don´t count with those services in ICU.

In Brazil there is a law that determine the presence of some of those professional (PT for example) 24/7. But that doesn´t translate into practice.

si, muchisimo, ya que las tecnologias ayudan muchisimo a los estudiantes, a la hora de los trabajos de investigacion, de contrastar informacion, gracias a las tecnologias los estudios siguen evolucionando, actualmente tambien existe una forma de estudios online, para aquellas personas que no pueden asistir a clase. Gracias a las tecnologias estamos en una sociedad evolucionada.

Great, thank you so much for this Anita. So helpful!

There is a difference between Likert-scored items and a scale that adds together multiple Likert-scored items to form a scale. So, the variable that you want to create would need at least 4 or 5 inter-related items to create a scale type measure.

If you use only a single Likert-scored item, you will have to treat it as ordinal rather than interval, and the options for analyzing ordinal-level variables are more limited than for interval

Thank you for your opinion and feedback.

You may need to develop your own questionnaires for the first two components of your study.  Consider what types of information you want to know and speak with a few teachers and OTs to gather some details about what they found useful or would find useful if they had access to OTs.  Then, use that information to build a questionnaire. It may take a few iterations to get the questionnaire to ask the types of questions that will be most useful. 

Acquisition of computer appreciation skills, uses of internet services and uses of social media.

I suggest that you might also add to you PT and OT team a person who has been working with geriatrics as Orientation and Mobility person or Teacher of Visually Impaired because they have experience with implications of visual impairment.  Check your statistics of visual impairments in persons in geriatric age range in Canada, I am not familiar with your statistics but here at least 50 percent will present with some type of visual impairment.  I work with geriatric developmentally delayed in a Habilitation Therapy group and find the collaboration with our teams is very rewarding.  I am an internationally certified orientation and mobility specialist and have lots of experience with geriatric persons with visual impairment and sometimes hearing impairment.  Recognizing the limitations of specific visual impairments on interpreting the environment is a great part of providing optimal therapy.

Kenalea Johnson

PAC/CAPE

Thank you for your input Donna. I certainly appreciate it! Right now I am focused on discovering any correlations that may exist between the OA and the VdTMoCA. For this particular study I will use the Relative Mastery Measurement scale and the Creative Participation Assessment.

I like the idea of conducting further studies using additional measures in order to solidify validity and reliability.

Thank you again!

Joseph Noack, OTR

PhD Student, Texas Woman's University

A few examples from PsychInfo

Creating a supportive environment: Peer support groups for psychotic disorders.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbv113

By Castelein, Stynke; Bruggeman, Richard; Davidson, Larry; van der Gaag, Mark

Schizophrenia Bulletin, Vol 41(6), Nov 2015, 1211-1213.

People with psychotic disorders frequently experience significant mental and social limitations that may result in persisting social isolation. Research has shown that a supportive social environment is crucial for the process of personal recovery. Peer support groups can provide an opportunity to reduce isolation and enhance the process of personal recovery. It encourages people to express their thoughts, feelings, and personal concerns in a peer-to-peer learning environment. Although the importance of peer support groups for various chronic diseases is widely acknowledged, they do not generally form part of routine care for people with psychotic disorders. The evidence base is promising, but the field could benefit from more rigorous, pragmatic trials with follow-up measurements to establish a solid evidence-base. This article briefly reviews the literature and discusses the barriers to implementation of a peer-support learning environment in routine care, as well as ways to overcome these. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Veterans’ perspectives on benefits and drawbacks of peer support for posttraumatic stress disorder.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00536

By Hundt, Natalie E.; Robinson, Andrew; Arney, Jennifer; Stanley, Melinda A.; Cully, Jeffrey A.

Military Medicine, Vol 180(8), Aug 2015, 851-856.

Peer support has been increasingly utilized within the Department of Veterans Affairs and offers an opportunity to augment existing care for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study sought to examine Veterans’ perspectives on the potential benefits and drawbacks of peer support for PTSD. A sample of 23 Veterans with substantial treatment experience completed one-time qualitative interviews that were transcribed and coded for thematic content using grounded theory methodology. Results indicated that Veterans identified numerous potential benefits to a peer support program, including social support, purpose and meaning, normalization of symptoms and hope, and therapeutic benefits. Veterans also identified ways that peer support could complement psychotherapy for PTSD by increasing initiation and adherence to treatment and supporting continued use of skills after termination. Results also indicated that Veterans may prefer peer support groups that are separated according to trauma type, gender, and era of service. Other findings highlighted the importance of the leadership and interpersonal skills of a peer support group leader. Overall, Veterans found peer support to be a highly acceptable complement to existing PTSD treatments with few drawbacks. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Brief online surveys to monitor and evaluate facilitated peer support groups for caregivers of children with special needs.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2014.12.019

By Wynter, Karen; Hammarberg, Karin; Sartore, Gina-Maree; Cann, Warren; Fisher, Jane

Evaluation and Program Planning, Vol 49, Apr 2015, 70-75.

Background: There have been few systematic evaluations of experiences of participating in peer support groups for parents and other caregivers of children with special needs. In Australia, facilitated groups are available to caregivers in community settings, through a nationally funded program, MyTime. Mechanisms for ongoing monitoring and evaluation have not yet been instituted. Aim: To establish whether brief, online surveys can be used for monitoring and evaluating peer support groups for caregivers of children with special needs. Methods: Two brief, online surveys, with both fixed-choice and open-ended questions, were developed. All caregivers who attended any MyTime group during a 1-month period were invited to participate. Results: Of 89 caregivers who expressed interest in participating, 54 and 31 respondents completed respectively. Respondents represented a variety of backgrounds and circumstances. Responses revealed both positive and negative aspects of group participation. Linked data on expectations and experiences provided important feedback for the program. Conclusion: Brief, online surveys are a suitable mechanism for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of peer support group programs for caregivers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Peer-to-peer support for PTSD in combat veterans.

By Schorr, Bobbie Jean

Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, Vol 76(9-B(E)), 2016, No Pagination Specified.

This study includes a comprehensive summary of articles evaluating the need for alternative forms of treatment for combat veterans suffering from PTSD and how their PTSD impacts their relationships with loved ones. Evaluated is the prevalence of aggression, substance abuse and suicide among combat veterans. Included are the most common forms of treatment currently being used and the barriers to the use of these current forms of treatment with combat veterans with PTSD. Information provided in the literature review helped to provide support for the need to find adequate treatment modalities for this population as well as confirm the fact that support from peers is the form of support that combat veterans are most likely to seek. In this qualitative study, phenomenological reduction was used in order to gain an understanding of the lived experience of peer-to-peer support groups for combat veteran's and how their involvement in peer-to-peer support can improve their relationships with loved ones. This study revealed not only information on how to improve existing peer-to-peer support groups but participants also provided feedback on what they needed in order to improve their relationships with friends and family. The results of the research study revealed five essential themes that will be presented for consideration: (a) The experience of peer-to-peer support for combat veterans provides normalization of their combat experiences; (b) Matching peer-to-peer support groups according to combat experience and branch of service is essential; (c) Peer-to-peer support helps with transition from military to civilian life; (d) Measures have to be taken to create safe, structured peer-to-peer support groups; (e) Feeling misunderstood by others. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Hearing voices peer support groups: A powerful alternative for people in distress.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2013.843020

By Dillon, Jacqui; Hornstein, Gail A.

Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, Vol 5(3), Oct 2013, 286-295.

Hearing voices peer support groups offer a powerful alternative to mainstream psychiatric approaches for understanding and coping with states typically diagnosed as "hallucination." In this jointly authored first-person account, we distill what we have learned from 10 years of facilitating and training others to facilitate these groups and what enables them to work most effectively in the long term. Having witnessed the transformative power of these groups for people long considered unreachable as well as for those who receive some benefit from standard psychiatric treatment, we describe effects that cannot easily be quantified or studied within traditional research paradigms. We explain the structure and function of hearing voices peer support groups and the importance of training facilitators to acquire the skills necessary to ensure that groups operate safely, democratically, and in keeping with the theories and principles of the Hearing Voices Network. The greater use of first-person experience as evidence in deciding what works or does not work for people in extreme distress is advocated; randomized designs or statistically significant findings cannot constitute the only bases for clinical evaluations (Elisabeth Svanholmer, in Romme et al. 2009, p. 151). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

 Thank you for all the information, Matej. I appreciate your concern for this. Network for Excellence in Health Innovation seems very important.  Research companies also share that MH facilities mostly do not survey for consumer satisfaction and effectiveness. This is all a terrible shame, and we should continue advocating for these causes.

Dear Meredith Van Damme

please check the resources pertaining to your topic

There is a growing use of a variety of gaming technology in OT.  Chatham University has several OTD Capstone projects that focus on this topic.  I myself, have used multiple games for iPad with use in the birth-3 years population. 

C. Meisner (2014) "Helping school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder improve daily living skills using video-mo"

Roberts, C. (2013) "Using touch screen technology to increase sustained attention in children 1-5 years who have autism spectrum disorder"

Ippolito, A. (2015) "The Wii a therapeutic treatment for improvement with occupational performance"

Raines, J. (2015) "Use of Nintendo Wii-Fitt to improve functional balance"

Heck, B. (2015) "Using the Wii balance board to decrease fear of falling in short term rehabilitation patients"

Fern Swedlove's article about OT's in retirement mirrors one aspect: Active activists - http://www.caot.ca/otnow/06Sept/WorldsHealth.pdf But there surely are many views on how to approach the transition from being an OT professional to retired life - as with other professionals going through the same process. OT's might have knowledge of meaningful and psychologically rewarding occupations but successful transition depends on so many factors such as: circumstances and settings; how professional life is experienced and valued by self and others; the range of interests except of work; contacts in social life and more. Just because we know a lot about occupation it does not mean we enact our own life led by our professional knowledge. 

or this one ?

thank you!

There are several activities and different treatment interventions you can use, it depends on your initial goals and what are the expectations for your client (patient). As a rehabilitation professional you may want to start with short term goals, these are important to engage you and your client. However it is important to emphasize that a long term goal may be something that will become more functional and improve the quality of life of this individuals. It is important to get these info from a proper book. A book will give a broad idea of your goals and what are the best intervention for your client, based on what he/she is capable of doing. (Remember Area of lesion and muscle function must be very sharp in your mind - it will help your to decide what activities you can re-introduce). When you say upper limb, you have to think whether his upper limb has some movement. Is there some elbow and wrist movement? is he/she able to make a fist? If yes, measure his/her strength with a handgrip dynamometer. http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tests/handgrip.htm

 All those things must be assessed first, once you have an idea of what he/she is capable of doing, then you can think about activities to enhance his abilities. Please, be careful as some activities could not be appropriate and may generate frustration. Scientific articles are great, when you start searching for specific concepts and activities. Mary Ann McCall is an Occupational Therapist with vast scientific publication in Spinal Cord. You can get a lot info, from her publications, even the old ones.  

Good Luck with your search,

Kamary

Some these articles may be helpful for your research

Bullock, A., & Bannigan, K. (2011). Effectiveness of activity-based group work in community mental health: A systematic review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 65, 257-266. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2011.001305

Creek, J. (2008). Creative leisure opportunities. NeuroRehabilitation, 23(4), 299-304 296p.

Gunnarsson, A. B., & Eklund, M. (2009). The Tree Theme Method as an intervention in psychosocial occupational therapy: Client acceptability and outcomes. The Australian Occupational Therapy Journal 56(3), 167-176. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1630.2008.00738.x

Holder, V. (2001). The use of Creative Activities within Occupational Therapy. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 64(2), 103-105

Müllersdorf, M., & Ivarsson, A. B. (2012). Use of creative activities in occupational therapy practice in Sweden. Occupational Therapy International, 19(3), 127-134 128p. doi: 10.1002/oti.1327

Thanks Craig, interesting to get your thoughts. We have reviewed out guidelines recently, and are more focused on consistent support across the team to return to activities, with guards only provided for especially high risk activities, more ie those with a history of penetrating injury, eg metalworkers.I have sourced wrap around adjustable Kevlar guards (material), for those with high cut risk, though this obviously has no impact on the risk of a hit.

Your clinical skills are as well as the softer skills are important to maintain an evidence-informed, patient-centered system of care.  The following business skills may also be helpful:

Organizational behavior and human resources: Staffing issues such as hiring and firing, and management issues such as leadership and motivation.

Strategic management: The process by which an organization determines its long-run direction, sets goals and objectives.

Finance: The process of acquiring, investing, and managing resources such as offices and equipment.

Marketing: Defining target markets, selecting market positions, and managing product, pricing, communications, and channel decisions.

Legal and ethical Issues: Tort liability, contracts, labor law, agency and organizational law, and ethical decision-making.

Accounting: The process of managing the recording, reporting, and analysis of financial transactions of a business.

Managerial decision making: The use of research design and statistical tools to improve decision-making.

Operations and systems management: Managing the processes that produce and distribute products and services.

Thank you Renaud Janet for bringing up stereotype threats, an interesting issue that may be viewed from various perspectives with regard to occupational therapy. And thank you Vaithiamanithi Perumal for providing some interesting references.

Occupational therapists (OTs) may have stereotype ideas that threat their interaction with clients/patients/relatives depending on diagnosis, culture, social state (high or low), cognitive ability and more diversities. OTs may also have developed stereotype intervention strategies that threat the priniciple of meeting individual needs despite of diagnosis. On the other hand people in general may have stereotype ideas or expectations of OTs and interventions offered in occupational therapy. threating their willingness to contact an OT. 

The attached link concerns clients with traumatic brain injury and how their experience of stereotype theats influence their performance on cognitive tests.

I suppose that we may experience stereotype threats at most arenas in life - from negligable ones to those impossible to control or overcome

Hello

I don't think you find much in available literature, but they are a bit more in individual forums` stories. 

I have scanned one study though, who has found  a potential benefits of hippo therapy in another epileptic encephalopathy syndrome; which is ohtohara syndrome.

H. Komaki, K. Sugai, M. Sasaki et al., “Surgical treatment of a case of early infantile epileptic encephalopathy with suppression-bursts associated with focal cortical dysplasia,” Epilepsia, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 365–369, 1999

Assisting with ADLs in dementia requires a more broad approach than just focusing on one specific area such as cognitive or physical activities. A multidimensional intervention encompassing areas such as environmental modification, caregiver education, and activity modification would be favourable. See the Tailored Activities Program as an example (Gitlin et al. 2008).

Hi there,

Although not systematic, a descriptive review of OT involvement in cancer rehab was done a few years ago, and is available on ResearchGate: Silver & Gilchrist (2011). Cancer rehabilitation with a focus on evidence-based outpatient physical and occupational therapy. Am J Phys Med & Rehab. 

Cheers,

Alison.

Hi Aileen,

Check out the work of my friend, Randy Keyser.

Evidence for aerobic insufficiency in women with systemic lupus erythematosus

Randall E. Keyser1,*,Violeta Rus1, William Todd Cade1,Neeta Kalappa1,

Raymond H. Flores1 and Barry S. Handwerger2

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Much success to you.

I have been looking at the issue in relation to helath professionals in general and there isn't much

Look at this:

Mohammadreza Hojat, Ph.D.,Joseph S. Gonnella, M.D.,Thomas J. Nasca, M.D.

Salvatore Mangione, M.D.,Michael Vergare, M.D.,Michael Magee, M.D.

Physician Empathy: Definition, Components,

Measurement, and Relationship to Gender and Specialty

(Am J Psychiatry 2002; 159:1563–1569)

Thank you so much!

Hi Julia,

This is a link to an article  http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/292 

I hope it will help.

Best whishes,

Achour

Hi!

I would suggest using ISCO-08.

Thank you very much for the information, very nice!

You might be interested in Jessica Maxwell's research about participation outcomes post TKR. Here is a link of her research.. I believe she has a few papers published about that: 

Mike Kent and Kate Ellis (Curtin University) have done some very interesting research on disability and technology and are currently editing a new book on disability and social and mobile media. I've only seen the draft list of chapters but there is an entire section on disabilities, technology and education. Worth checking out their existing work and keeping an eye out for forthcoming book - think it is called 'Disability and Social Media' 

Sabrina, although this reply may be too late for you:

I would generally refer you to Marilyn Cole's comprehensive textbook: Group dynamics in occupational therapy. You may also be interested in Mona Eklund's doctoral work (and later work) in this area (you will find her articles and article references here on RG). In addition, you may find my latest article in Groupwork of interest; this is about expressive art group therapy for persons with eating disorders.

Best wishes, Tore

Hello Jane

I am a new user to Research Gate (and social media in general) so this is my first post.   I hope to use Research Gate to link with the wider research community, as well as keep in touch with my OT roots.  I am looking to develop my research skills further in terms of participating in the research process of literature searching, data analysis and reporting findings.   My OT background is  working in clinical services with people with mental health and learning disabilities.  I am currently  a Clinical Studies Officer ( with the NHS trust and Clinical Research Network) enabling service users and staff to participate in  mental health research in secondary and primary care, supported by the National Institute of Health Research.   My role involves  setting up research studies to run in our trust,  and recruiting service users and staff into those research studies. 

I find Resarch Gate fascinating to see the range of interests that OTs and other professions are researching  in the north of England, as well as all over the world! 

Best wishes

Les

The Cervical Overview Group (COG), the group that publishes series of Cochrane systematic reviews, has created a knowledge translation tool kit for clinicians to help move the evidence on neck pain care into practice. Have a look at the following website in Physiopaedia for an evidence based solution.

Anita Gross

Hi Dave then I guess you research question is very valid then, now i see its application a little better. I think if you lack ALH's then adaptation is the only way forward, you can only work with whom you have or what you've got. Good luck in your research David nice talking with you by the way.

It might be easier to view both as opposite ends of a continuum. If a person is under responsive, their sensitivity to sensory input is low and may not even be aware of it. In short, because they don’t sense what others do, this affects nervous system arousal. Sensation seeking can be viewed as the other end of the continuum. They are not only aware of sensory input, there is a desire for more, intense stimulation.

I am doing my master's thesis on AAT. I am focusing on marriage and family therapy but I came across a helpful website that might be helpful to you as you do your research. The URL is https://habricentral.org/

I have also attached an article that I stumbled across during my research.

I hope you find this helpful!

You can gather useful information in the international FES society website (http://www.ifess.org). There's an education section that might prove useful for those not familiar with FES concepts. And there's also an open access repository of the IFESS conference proceedings.

Great! I wish you to find a suitable place!

Kind Regards

Lijo

There is a therapy called hippotherapy wherein the children with neurodevelopmental delay are treated with them being seated on the horses,to develop or correct faulty postural mechanisms. You can be more specific with the key words to expedite the responses .

Have you got http://www.otseeker.com/ and http://psycbite.com/ as important sources of information on this topic?

The answers will be things individuals prefer to do, daily type activities, have experience doing, historic review, have in common, interactive, cognitive, lightly challenging, fun or would like to learn. Free lectures and community events. This website I just encountered might give you some ideas. http://www.caring.com/articles/activities-for-dementia-alzheimers-patients.

A search in "low cost ideas for activities with older adults" yields many ideas.

Perhaps there are community members who wish to assist and adopt a program to help out with engaging this population.

Temporary splinting in RA is advisable for joint rest and relieving of pain but permanent splint is contraindicated to avoid more stiffness and deformities. Functional splinting can be designed with helping of occupational therapy. And

Whatever the type of splinting you are using a pain free range of motion exercise programs should be applied.

Also one more article on occupational disease.

Preparing for retirement and "work" occupations in retirement are both important, but seperate issues. There is some research out there on the retirement process, but if you're looking to follow someone's research, Jackie Boehm from James Cook University is starting some research in this area. If you're looking in to productive occupations in retirement, volunteering appears quite important. The benefits of volunteering can be looked at from multiple perspectives. There's a Foresight report on mental health that looks at general population needs and suggests volunteering as part of a five-a-day. In terms of seniors, my own paper in to time use of community-dwelling older people suggests that volunteering is one of the only time use factors associated with life satisfaction.

No problem! please find attached the publication!

You may want to look at constructs outside of pain severity, such as pain related disability. WHODAS 2.0 is a good indicator.

Journal of Occupational Science 2006:1 has articles on this issue for example: Kroksmark,U., Nordel, K. et.al (2006). Time Geographic Method: application to studing patterns of occupation in different contexts. p 11-16

I suggest texts in the links below. I hope that helps.

Animal Fun is an evidence based, whole of school program for young children. There are cards and instructions for teachers so that the program can be graded as the children develop. There are three areas of focus - gross motor, fine motor and social skills. Here is a link to the journal article. If you google Animal Fun and Jan Piek at Curtin University you will find more information

suggest you look at the work done around the neighbour hood early years and early support.This was a joint project done with the dept of education and skills , dept of health and supported by surestart. Individual organisations suchas down syndrome educational trust and scope were involved. consultation was done on this topic , you also may find Peter Limbrick helpful with his work on the team around the child.

Sounds like an excellent study- Keep me updated

Hello there

I am sorry but do not know of any questionnaires related to 1 and 2. I think you will have to devlop your own or interview participants asking them related questions.

Jane

I have uploaded the authors guidance to the files section, for further information.