{"title":"The shadow side of occupational therapy: Necropower, state racism and colonialism.","authors":"Pier-Luc Turcotte, Dave Holmes","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2264330","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2264330","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Objective and method: </strong>Utilising Achille Mbembe's concept of <i>necropolitics</i>, this academic essay blends select historical and philosophical perspectives to explore occupational therapy's concealed role in manifestations of institutionalised violence.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>By examining its roles in World War II and France's colonisation of Algeria, we make visible the development of occupational therapy's distinct 'shadow side'. In Nazi Germany's Euthanasia Programme, it became a tool for identifying which lives were deemed 'worthy of living' and which were not, which indirectly contributed to the killing of 200,000 disabled persons. Under France's colonial medical system, occupational therapy imposed Western standards that alienated and completely depersonalised Algerian patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusion and significance: </strong>Entrenched in a (bio)economy that has endured beyond these events, occupational therapists must exercise vigilance, remaining mindful of the potential to unintentionally overlook individuals labelled as 'unproductive'. This requires confronting the profession's assumptions of inherent 'goodness' and acknowledging and addressing its shadow side.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"2264330"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41150263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nina Mønsted, Lisa Mahaffey, Christina Jessen Winge, Anette Enemark Larsen
{"title":"Perceptions of unilluminated occupations a survey of Danish occupational therapists.","authors":"Nina Mønsted, Lisa Mahaffey, Christina Jessen Winge, Anette Enemark Larsen","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2024.2373080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2024.2373080","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In occupational therapy and -science positive aspects of occupation are highlighted. Recently, this discourse has been questioned, as it might leave out occupations - referred to as unilluminated occupations (UO) - that hold value to people, without fitting the positive ideal.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To translate UO into Danish and to examine how occupational therapists (OTs) view and address UO.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A survey developed in USA was translated into Danish and distributed to OTs across Denmark. We added questions on the Danish wording of the concepts, including a content validity index (CVI). Data was subjected to a descriptive analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The respondents agreed that OTs must include examining the purpose and meaning of UO, however without having a responsibility to support performing these UO. The applied translation: high risk (risikable), unhealthy (usunde), unethical (uetiske), immoral (umoralske), and unacceptable (uacceptable) were deemed relevant in Danish, established by CVIs on 0.72-0.90.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and significance: </strong>Although most respondents were positive towards examining and acknowledging clients' purpose and meaning of UO, no clear consensus when addressing UO in interventions was seen. Further research might shed light on ways to approach UO both in assessment and intervention. The Danish terms appeared relevant to encompass UO.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":"31 1","pages":"2373080"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141617491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Klara Forsberg, Daniel Sutton, Sigrid Stjernswärd, Ulrika Bejerholm, Elisabeth Argentzell
{"title":"Experiences of participating in a group-based sensory modulation intervention for mental health service users","authors":"Klara Forsberg, Daniel Sutton, Sigrid Stjernswärd, Ulrika Bejerholm, Elisabeth Argentzell","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2294767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2023.2294767","url":null,"abstract":"People with mental health issues often experience difficulties with sensory modulation affecting occupational engagement. Research conducted in inpatient units has shown positive effects of individ...","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138818923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frida Nordeström, Marianne Granbom, Susanne Iwarsson, Magnus Zingmark
{"title":"Ageing in the right place-usability of a web-based housing counselling service.","authors":"Frida Nordeström, Marianne Granbom, Susanne Iwarsson, Magnus Zingmark","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2294777","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2294777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Residential reasoning is a complex process that includes decisions on whether to age in place or to relocate. Ageing in the Right Place (ARP), a web-based housing counselling service was created to support older adults in this process. The study's aim was to evaluate the usability of the ARP as regards content, design, specific functions, and self-administration as a mode of delivery and to lay the ground for further optimisation.</p><p><strong>Material and method: </strong>Nine women and five men (aged 66-82) completed a series of tasks using the ARP. Qualitative and quantitative usability data were collected through online interviews. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis and descriptive statistics.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Experiences of the specific functions, content, and design of the ARP were described as mainly positive. Additions to the content and optimisation to assist in the general navigation of the website were suggested. The participants disagreed regarding the preferred mode of delivery, which indicates a need for selectable options. A system usability scale median score of 84 indicated acceptable usability.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The ARP seems to have acceptable usability, which paves the way for further evaluation.</p><p><strong>Significance: </strong>By enabling residential reasoning, older adults are supported to make proactive choices based on informed decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":"31 1","pages":"2294777"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139049649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occupational therapy and cooking: A scoping review and future directions","authors":"R. Hingst, D. C. Alvarado, L. Bardin, N. Farmer","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2267081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2023.2267081","url":null,"abstract":"Occupational therapy (OT) has historically used cooking as an intervention and assessment approach across settings. Current practices in OT and the emergence of the multidisciplinary field of culin...","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":"196 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138572698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Underlying functions associated with keyboarding performance of elementary-school students.","authors":"Nagham Gahshan-Haddad, Naomi Weintraub","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2188254","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2188254","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Keyboarding (Typing) is a major writing mode in educational settings in addition to, or as an alternative to, handwriting. Therefore, it is important that occupational therapists become experts on this activity, to support students' performance. Yet, the knowledge of keyboarding performance of elementary-school students, and the underlying functions it entails, is limited.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To compare keyboarding performance (speed and accuracy) of 4<sup>th</sup>-grade students in copying and dictation keyboarding tasks, and to examine the role of underlying functions in predicting keyboarding performance.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>The sample consisted of 57 4<sup>th</sup>-grade students, recruited from 2 elementary schools. Students were tested for reading speed, attention shifting, fine-motor skills, kinaesthetic awareness, and keyboarding performance.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Keyboarding performance differed in the copying and dictation tasks. Reading speed was the major underlying function predicting keyboarding performance in both tasks. Additionally, kinaesthetic awareness had a low, negative correlation with dictation accuracy.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>When occupational therapists assess students' keyboarding performance, they should use various tasks. Additionally, therapists should consider students' reading speed and kinaesthetic awareness, as they may explain keyboarding performance. This knowledge may also support decision-making when considering keyboarding as an alternative writing mode for students with handwriting difficulties.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"1415-1423"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9124823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Louise Moeldrup Nielsen, Helene Polatajko, Mette Brandi, Tove Lise Nielsen
{"title":"Feasibility of using the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance in a population of Danish stroke survivors: Adaptation and study protocol.","authors":"Louise Moeldrup Nielsen, Helene Polatajko, Mette Brandi, Tove Lise Nielsen","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2258202","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2258202","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To adapt the CO-OP to a Danish healthcare setting and present a protocol for examining its feasibility.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>The Adapting interventions to new contexts (ADAPT) guidance was followed to (1) Assess the rationale for intervention and consider intervention-context fit, (2) Plan and undertake adaptations, and (3) Plan a feasibility study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Intervention materials and procedures were translated and adapted for home-based occupational therapy with people in the subacute phase of stroke. A protocol was developed to examine feasibility aspects. Quantitative and qualitative evaluations were planned and measurements chosen.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and significance: </strong>The planned feasibility study will contribute to further developing and refining the intervention before performing a possible large-scale effectiveness study.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"1511-1522"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41179022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hippotherapy concepts: A scoping review to inform transdisciplinary practice guidelines.","authors":"Ninette du Plessis, Kitty Uys, Tania Buys","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2231562","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2231562","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To explore, identify, and describe concepts that constitute hippotherapy practices for clients with spastic cerebral palsy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An exploratory descriptive qualitative research design, using Arksey and O'Malley's five stages of scoping review.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified and tabulated 19 hippotherapy concepts.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Hippotherapy is a complex intervention with multiple concepts. This review contributed to the development of hippotherapy practice guidelines for clients with spastic cerebral palsy.</p><p><strong>Significance: </strong>Including hippotherapy concepts into hippotherapy practice will inform therapists, benefit clients, and contribute to future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"1424-1440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9861959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lola Qvist Kristensen, Maurits W van Tulder, Frederik Rosenbæk, Marie Almkvist Muren, Hanne Kaae Kristensen, Lidwine B Mokkink, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard
{"title":"Measurement properties of performance-based instruments for assessing mental function during activity and participation in persons with stroke: A systematic review.","authors":"Lola Qvist Kristensen, Maurits W van Tulder, Frederik Rosenbæk, Marie Almkvist Muren, Hanne Kaae Kristensen, Lidwine B Mokkink, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2258161","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2258161","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Various performance-based instruments exist to assess mental function after stroke and users have to select one for research or clinical practice.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To evaluate the measurement properties of performance-based instruments to assess (any aspect of) mental function during activity and participation in persons after stroke.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>We searched in five electronic databases. COSMIN methodology was used to conduct the review. The strength of evidence was assessed using a modified GRADE approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Fifty articles were included reporting on 20 instruments assessing (1) multiple mental functions including ≥ four subdomains (2) attention, memory and executive functions, or single subdomains (3) executive functions, (4) perception, and (5) mental function of language. Highest quality evidence for sufficient results was found for some measurement properties in seven instruments. These instruments included: FIM + FAM, MPAI-4 and EFPT, MET, CBS/KF-NAP, BIT and the Scenario Test.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Further studies of high methodological quality are needed that evaluate the measurement properties of instruments to allow clinicians and researchers to select the most suitable performance-based measures for purpose.</p><p><strong>Significance: </strong>Results may be used to select the most suitable performance-based instrument to measure mental function during activity and participation in persons with stroke.</p><p><strong>Trial registration number: </strong>PROSPERO CRD42018086744.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"1489-1510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41173455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meredith J Dash, Yani Hamdani, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Gail Teachman
{"title":"Representations of parenting autistic children: A critical interpretive synthesis.","authors":"Meredith J Dash, Yani Hamdani, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Gail Teachman","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2210802","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2210802","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Many taken-for-granted expectations for parents in Western societies are situated in normative assumptions. Social constructions of 'good' parenting may be a poor fit for parents whose children's development varies from a so-called typical trajectory. Normative assumptions about parenting can have harmful effects for parents of autistic children.</p><p><strong>Aims/objectives: </strong>This paper examines representations of parenting autistic children in contemporary research and considers the potential effects of these representations on these parents' occupational possibilities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Informed by a critical occupational perspective, a critical interpretive synthesis (CIS) of 27 research articles focussed on parenting autistic children was conducted.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Three major discursive threads were identified regarding how parents of autistic children are represented in research: gendered assumptions, caregiving as all-consuming, and disruption of normative expectations of parenting.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and significance: </strong>Normative discourses about parenting were (re)produced within this body of research which may perpetuate limitations in the occupational possibilities of parents of autistic children. Critical investigation into contemporary research is necessary to challenge taken for granted expectations for parents of children with autism, to mitigate harmful effects for parents, to inform transformative OT practices and policies, and to promote equitable service provision.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"1209-1223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9432361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}