Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy

BACKGROUND: Information and communication technology (ICT) provides one solution to meet increasing demands for occupational therapy for older adults. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: To examine if and how municipality-based occupational therapists (OTs) include ICT in their work, and which factors are associated with use of occupational therapy at a distance. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Survey study including 167 OTs. Data were presented descriptively. Associations were analysed by Chi2 test and logistic regression models...

BACKGROUND: Involvement in research and shared priorities among occupational therapists (OTs) can enhance the quality of occupational therapy practice. AIMS: To explore the research involvement and research priorities of OTs in Norway. MATERIALS AND METHODS: An online survey comprising 14 open-ended and closed questions was made available to participants at the Seventh Norwegian Congress in Occupational Therapy to fill out. RESULTS: Out of 633 congress participants, 307 (49%) OTs completed the survey...

BACKGROUND: In the Global North, advances in occupational therapy benefitted unduly from the oppression, disablement and suffering of thousands of people in the South (and beyond). To prevent the recurrence of these injustices, history must be unveiled and occupational therapists urged to come to terms with their own involvement and responsibility. OBJECTIVE AND METHOD: Utilising Achille Mbembe's concept of necropolitics , this academic essay blends select historical and philosophical perspectives to explore occupational therapy's concealed role in manifestations of institutionalised violence...

BACKGROUND: A need was identified for an occupational therapy intervention for stroke survivors in a Danish municipal healthcare setting with emphasis on its ability to transfer and generalise what is learned in occupational therapy to everyday life post therapy. Being a possible candidate, the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) approach needed to be adapted to the target group and context, and its feasibility needed examination regarding reach, dose, intervention components, fidelity, perceived value, benefits, harms, and potential outcomes...

BACKGROUND: Various performance-based instruments exist to assess mental function after stroke and users have to select one for research or clinical practice. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the measurement properties of performance-based instruments to assess (any aspect of) mental function during activity and participation in persons after stroke. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We searched in five electronic databases. COSMIN methodology was used to conduct the review...

BACKGROUND: Research is limited about how the introduction of new ways of delivering and conducting occupational therapy, in accordance with expected changes in health care, is experienced by occupational therapists (OTs). AIM: To explore how OTs experienced use of a new internet-based intervention, 'Strategies for Empowering activities in Everyday life' (SEE), focusing on supporting client resources to manage an active everyday life after stroke. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A focus group study with periodical repeated discussion was designed...

BACKGROUND: The vast majority of older adults live in their own homes. Many of them live with chronic conditions that lead to activity limitations and participation restrictions. To support them adequately, we need to better understand how they cope with everyday difficulties. AIM: To identify and examine difficulties in everyday life older people with chronic conditions who live in private homes face and how they and their significant others interpret, navigate, and overcome these difficulties...

Background: There is a lack of knowledge about how persons with cerebral palsy (CP) perceive their 'process of doing' while performing everyday occupations. As described in the Model of the Process of Doing (MPoD), performing an occupation is a complex process consisting of six phases (generate idea, plan, initiate, enact, adjust, end) and time management. Aim: To collect the experiences of young adults with CP, classified at Manual Ability Classification System (MACS) level I or II, regarding how they perceive challenges in their occupational performance in relation to the different phases of the 'process of doing'...

BACKGROUND: The increasing survival after a lung cancer diagnosis implies that patients live longer with the disease, which means that symptoms and side effects of the treatment become part of everyday life. AIM: The study explored how older adults make meaning of everyday life when undergoing treatment for their lung cancer. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted with 12 older adults with lung cancer undergoing various treatments...

BACKGROUND: Young adult cancer survivors (YACS) aged 18-39 report age-specific multifactorial challenges with self-care, leisure, work and education requiring multicomponent rehabilitation intervention. Therefore, the 'Young Adult Taking Action' (YATAC) programme was developed. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: To present a protocol for a feasibility study evaluating the acceptability of the YATAC programme and exploring implementation, mechanisms of impact and outcomes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A mixed-method feasibility study with a convergent research design will be conducted...

BACKGROUND: The ADAPT Program have improved activities of daily living (ADL) in women with fibromyalgia. To understand the functioning of the program, it is relevant to evaluate how program theory components are linked to outcomes (mechanisms) and how the randomised controlled trial (RCT) context, influenced delivery and outcomes. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate ADAPT in terms of dose, mechanisms of change and contextual factors. MATERIAL/METHODS: Dose was recorded on the n  = 21 participants receiving ADAPT in the IMPROvE trial (NCT01352052)...

BACKGROUND: Mental health problems (MHP) are a major public health challenge. Conventional healthcare has shown limitation on reducing MHP and there is a call for offering methods beyond healthcare as well as improve access to healthcare. AIMS: To explore experiences among people having MHP of (i) taking part in existential conversations in groups beyond conventional healthcare and (ii) seeking and receiving conventional healthcare. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Four focus group interviews were conducted after finishing existential conversations in groups...

BACKGROUND: There is a need for an instrument to measure participation and independence in children with disabilities. FUNDES-Child-SE has its origin in the participation questionnaire Child and Adolescent Scale of Participation. AIMS: Test the psychometric properties of internal consistency and test-retest reliability. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study included caregivers of 163 children with disability aged 6-18 years, 59 of whom were also included in the test-retest study...

BACKGROUND: Hippotherapy, an equine-assisted service, uses the movement of the horse as a treatment tool. Hippotherapy is often used by occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech and language pathologists. To optimise hippotherapy and facilitate the development of transdisciplinary hippotherapy practise guidelines, this scoping review identified novel hippotherapy concepts used during hippotherapy interventions for clients with spastic cerebral palsy. AIM: To explore, identify, and describe concepts that constitute hippotherapy practices for clients with spastic cerebral palsy...

BACKGROUND: Parenting demands a high degree of attention, planning, and problem-solving, including time management, demands that can be challenging for parents with ADHD. Let's Get Organized (LGO) is an occupational therapy group intervention aiming at developing skills in time management, organisation and planning. There is a need to investigate if LGO may have an impact also on parenting. AIM: To describe how parents with ADHD experienced the intervention, their time management strategies, parenting and family life after the occupational therapy group intervention LGO...

BACKGROUND: Heat waves impact the health of older adults, and occupations are important for health. An overview of research focussed on older adults' occupations in heat waves can be useful for occupational therapy practice. OBJECTIVE: To identify what the literature shows about older adults' experience and performance of, and participation in, occupations in heat waves. MATERIAL AND METHOD: This scoping review included a literature search in five academic databases, four databases for grey literature, and a manual search...

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BACKGROUND: The work participation of young adults with chronic physical conditions lag behind compared to healthy age-mates. 'At Work' is a vocational rehabilitation intervention provided by occupational therapists, that supports them for entering the competitive labour market after graduating post-secondary education. AIM: To evaluate the effects of 'At Work' on self-efficacy, work-ability and employment status as compared to usual care. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In total, 88 young adults were included in a multicentre controlled trial; 49 entered 'At Work', 39 received usual care...

BACKGROUND: The the Self-Assessment of Modes Questionnaire (SAMQ) has been translated into Danish and culturally adapted (D-SAMQ), and aspects of validity and reliability have also been evaluated. However, no knowledge about the clinical utility of the D-SAMQ exists. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: The aims were to investigate the clinical utility of the D-SAMQ among Danish occupational therapists (OTs) and occupational therapy students (OTSs), and to determine differences in perceived clinical utility between the two groups...

BACKGROUND: Critical perspectives which focus on socio-political influences on occupation have gained increased attention within the occupational therapy profession. Critical disability studies (CDS) question prevailing assumptions about disability and how disabling ideologies and practices are perpetuated in society. Universal Design (UD) is a design approach that aims to operationalise issues of inclusion and justice. AIM: To identify and discuss how the tenets of CDS and UD can contribute to occupational therapy practice and research...