Donna Colaianni, A. Skuthan, Brittany Coscomb, Laura Nost, Alexandra Schray, Alexandra Hahn, Joanna Frank, Samantha Wynn
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Abstract
BACKGROUND
The effectiveness of occupation-based hand therapy and the barriers to the use of occupation-based interventions (OBIs) have been established, but the current experience of hand therapists using OBIs and the extent of the use of OBIs in practice is unknown.
OBJECTIVE
This study aimed to identify the frequency that occupational therapists who are Certified Hand Therapists (CHTs) utilized OBIs, how occupational therapists who are CHTs described their application of OBIs, and identify the supports and barriers to the application of OBIs.
METHODS
Twenty-nine participants completed a survey that included 27 questions. The questions consisted of close ended, Likert scale, and multiple-choice questions which were analyzed quantitatively, and open-ended questions which were analyzed qualitatively.
RESULTS
The majority of the participants, 57.7%, reported implementing OBI at least 75% of the time. Barriers and supports to the use of OBIs reported include a lack of equipment and therapist creativity, and support for the use of OBIs included the therapist's creativity, support from the facility, the availability of equipment, and the intrinsic motivation of therapists. Descriptions of OBI application included activity simulation, adaptive equipment use, and participation in meaningful activity.
CONCLUSION
Although the use of OBIs in hand therapy may be expanding, occupational therapy practitioners and educators have a role to play in overcoming the remaining barriers to occupation-based hand therapy. Additional research is needed to gain further insight into use of occupation-based intervention by occupational therapists who are CHTs and explore the effect of education on promoting the use of OBIs.
期刊介绍:
Cognition, Technology & Work focuses on the practical issues of human interaction with technology within the context of work and, in particular, how human cognition affects, and is affected by, work and working conditions.
The aim is to publish research that normally resides on the borderline between people, technology, and organisations. Including how people use information technology, how experience and expertise develop through work, and how incidents and accidents are due to the interaction between individual, technical and organisational factors.
The target is thus the study of people at work from a cognitive systems engineering and socio-technical systems perspective.
The most relevant working contexts of interest to CTW are those where the impact of modern technologies on people at work is particularly important for the users involved as well as for the effects on the environment and plants. Modern society has come to depend on the safe and efficient functioning of a multitude of technological systems as diverse as industrial production, transportation, communication, supply of energy, information and materials, health and finance.