Jemma Gilfillan, Laura Irvine-Brown, Amelia Di Tommaso, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano, Lisette Farias
{"title":"\"(Not) knowing what you know\": Exploring educators' perceptions of critical thinking in occupational therapy.","authors":"Jemma Gilfillan, Laura Irvine-Brown, Amelia Di Tommaso, Ana Paula Serrata Malfitano, Lisette Farias","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2024.2405189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2024.2405189","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Critical thinking is key for responsible occupational therapy practice. However, the degree to which educators understand critical thinking and the conceptualizations of such concept in teaching remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aimed to describe occupational therapy educators' perceptions and experiences of teaching critical thinking.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Social constructivism underpins the study. Eight participants were included in three online synchronous focus groups. One participant was interviewed in person due to time constraints. Data were analysed using content analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>This study reveals a considerable diversity of perceptions and experiences of ambiguity regarding educators' perceptions of what they know about and how to teach critical thinking. Most educators interpret critical thinking in ways that differs from their colleagues. Furthermore, educators encounter divergent expectations pertaining to their role as educators and the readiness of their students.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study reveal a paradox within the occupational therapy profession, where critical thinking is highly valued yet educators experience ambiguity, differing expectations of their role, time constraints, and lack of formal education to support students' development of critical thinking.</p><p><strong>Significance: </strong>This study provides the foundation for further inquiry into the invisible effects and benefits of different understandings of critical thinking on occupational therapy practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142299562","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}
Martin Karaba Bäckström, Eva Lundgreen, Björn Slaug
{"title":"Mitigating the effects of climate change in children's outdoor play environments.","authors":"Martin Karaba Bäckström, Eva Lundgreen, Björn Slaug","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2275697","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2275697","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>For many children, public playgrounds represent environments that are playful and important in developing good health. Without efforts to facilitate climate change adaptation of outdoor playgrounds there may be a negative impact on children's health and well-being.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>With a special focus on play value, to explore the reasoning and described strategies among professionals responsible for development, planning and solutions concerning outdoor playgrounds in the context of climate change.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Eight semi-structured interviews were held with purposefully selected interviewees. Analysis was conducted with manifest content analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four themes with supporting categories; 1: a new design paradigm for outdoor play environments, 2: a need for updated regulation- and security guidelines for outdoor play environments, 3: nature-based play environments are more climate change resilient, and 4: maintenance and construction of nature-based outdoor play environments. The findings showed an overall awareness and a will to use innovative and nature-based strategies and planning to deal with climate change implications for outdoor play environments.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and significance: </strong>The findings suggest that the strategies employed lean towards implementation of increased ecosystem services and natural elements. Ensuring strengthened resilience against hazardous climate change effects may positively facilitate diverse play activities with high play value.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138446787","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":"Creative activities as intervention - Exploring occupational therapists' narrative reasoning.","authors":"Bodil Winther Hansen, Helle Andrea Pedersen, Lene Lauge Berring, Staffan Josephsson","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2024.2394212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2024.2394212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Creative activities as intervention (CaI) in mental health promotes recovery and is an important part of occupational therapy practice. Yet few studies have explored occupational therapists' reasoning about using CaI to trace tacit knowledge.</p><p><strong>Aims/objectives: </strong>The aim of this study was to explore occupational therapists' reasoning on rationale and motives in co-creating a model (the CreActivity model) for CaI as a resource in mental health rehabilitation.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Co-operative inquiry and narrative theory provided the methodology for exploring eight occupational therapists' narrative reasoning in the process of co-creating a model. Data were generated <i>via</i> ethnographic methods from seven co-operative inquiry group meetings and analysed through narrative analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The occupational therapists' reasoning in using creative activities comprised building relationships and opportunity for activity. Motivating and engagement by finding 'cracks' and stories bridging action with the past and future using creative activities were used to create reflection, development, and empowerment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and significance: </strong>Identifying the narrative layers of occupational therapists' reasoning on achieving core dimensions of occupational therapy may enable and support occupational therapists in the use of creative activities as intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142082421","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}
Ida-Maria Barchéus, Maria Ranner, Eva Månsson Lexell, Maria Larsson-Lund
{"title":"Occupational therapists' experiences of using a new internet-based intervention - a focus group study.","authors":"Ida-Maria Barchéus, Maria Ranner, Eva Månsson Lexell, Maria Larsson-Lund","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2247029","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2247029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>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).</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A focus group study with periodical repeated discussion was designed. Four sessions during a period of 22 months were conducted with a total of four OTs.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>Overall, the results reflected that the OTs experienced that the use of SEE for persons with stroke was a valuable complement to existing rehabilitation. The process of introducing SEE included a multifaceted transition involving context, intervention process and delivery that renewed occupational therapy.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These results indicate how the use of new internet-based interventions such as SEE can influence and support renewal of occupational therapy that extends beyond the particular intervention. Continued research is needed to explore more aspects of SEE feasibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10244074","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}
Ines Mouchaers, Hilde Verbeek, Sigrid van Haaster, Jolanda C M van Haastregt, Ellen Vlaeyen, Geert Goderis, Silke F Metzelthin
{"title":"What matters to you? A mixed-method evaluation of goal setting and attainment within reablement from a client perspective.","authors":"Ines Mouchaers, Hilde Verbeek, Sigrid van Haaster, Jolanda C M van Haastregt, Ellen Vlaeyen, Geert Goderis, Silke F Metzelthin","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2024.2356548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2024.2356548","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Goal setting is an essential component of reablement programmes. At the same time it is also an important aspect in the evaluation of reablement from the perspective of clients.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>As part of the TRANS-SENIOR project, this research aims to get an in-depth insight of goal setting and goal attainment within reablement services from the perspective of the older person.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A convergent mixed methods design was used, combining data from electronic care files, and completed Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) forms with individual interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In total, 17 clients participated. Participants' meaningful goals mainly focused on self-care, rather than leisure or productivity. This mattered most to them, since being independent in performing self-care tasks increased clients' confidence and perseverance. Regarding goal attainment, a statistically significant and clinically relevant increase in self-perceived performance and satisfaction scores were observed.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although most goals focused on self-care, it became apparent that these tasks matter to participants, especially because these often precede fundamental life goals.</p><p><strong>Significance: </strong>Reablement can positively contribute to goal setting and attainment of clients and may contribute to increased independence. However, effectiveness, and subsequently long-term effects, are not yet accomplished and should be evaluated in future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141158387","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}
Joanna Nordstrand, A Birgitta Gunnarsson, Petra Wagman, Ulrica Hörberg, Kristina Holmgren
{"title":"Occupational therapists' experiences of photo-supported conversations - An intervention in primary health care.","authors":"Joanna Nordstrand, A Birgitta Gunnarsson, Petra Wagman, Ulrica Hörberg, Kristina Holmgren","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2024.2385041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2024.2385041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The health-promoting intervention BeWell<sup>™</sup>, which includes photo-supported conversations, is intended for people with stress-related illnesses. Its focus is on improving the individual's health and well-being by addressing what contributes to well-being from the patient's own perspective. There is no current knowledge of the experiences of occupational therapists of using BeWell<sup>™</sup> in primary health care. It is thus important to gain knowledge of their experiences of using this intervention as part of investigating its feasibility.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To describe the occupational therapists' experiences of photo-supported conversations about well-being (BeWell<sup>™</sup>) with patients diagnosed with stress-related illnesses.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Six occupational therapists, working in primary health care, who had conducted the photo-supported conversations about well-being (BeWell<sup>™</sup>), were interviewed individually, and one focus group discussion was also conducted. Systematic text condensation was used as the analysis method.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Three main themes with two to three subgroups in each were identified; Discovering well-being through images, Enhancing patient's own efforts towards well-being, and Contributing to one's own well-being.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and significance: </strong>The results provide important knowledge for the continued research work with BeWell<sup>™</sup> by investigating how the users of the intervention experienced it.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890678","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":"Association between parent-proxy-reported and child-self-reported perceptions of children's motor competence and children's performance-based motor skill abilities.","authors":"Alice Humble, Mon-Lin Yu, Ted Brown","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2274883","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2274883","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>When assessing motor skills, occupational therapists are encouraged to seek the perspectives of children and their parents to promote the delivery of client-centered care.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To investigate whether 9-12-year-old children's views and their parents' proxy views of the children's motor skill competence and their performance on a standardized, performance-based assessment are associated.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Thirty 9-12-year-old children completed the Perceived Motor Competence Questionnaire in Childhood (PMC-C) and the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Movement Skill Competence - version 2 (PMSC-2), while their parents completed the Movement Assessment Battery for Children-2nd Edition Checklist (MABC-2 Checklist). Children's objective motor skills were measured by the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-2nd Edition (BOT-2). Spearman's rho correlations were used to analyze the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Significant associations were found between the BOT-2 total motor composite and the PMC-C. A significant association was found between the MABC-2 Checklist and the BOT-2 Strength and Agility composite, as well as the PMC-C total score.</p><p><strong>Significance and conclusions: </strong>Occupational therapists are encouraged to include children and their parents in the therapeutic process to capture individual perspectives and deliver client-centered care.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71428370","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}
Tina Taule, Inger Hellem, Irmelin Smith Eide, Kristin Gjelvik, Liv Elisabeth Hinderaker, Ingvild Kjeken, Bianca Rolfsnes-Flock, Merethe Hustoft
{"title":"A survey of research involvement and priorities among occupational therapists in Norway.","authors":"Tina Taule, Inger Hellem, Irmelin Smith Eide, Kristin Gjelvik, Liv Elisabeth Hinderaker, Ingvild Kjeken, Bianca Rolfsnes-Flock, Merethe Hustoft","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2273271","DOIUrl":"10.1080/11038128.2023.2273271","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Involvement in research and shared priorities among occupational therapists (OTs) can enhance the quality of occupational therapy practice.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To explore the research involvement and research priorities of OTs in Norway.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Out of 633 congress participants, 307 (49%) OTs completed the survey. Among the respondents, ∼40% were involved in research. The most commonly reported area of research was rehabilitation. Research involvement was associated with employment in education or specialist healthcare services and with greater work experience and post-bachelor's degree education. The most frequently prioritized research question addressed the effect of occupational therapy. Unmet needs and factors conducive to increasing OT's involvement in research were identified.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and significance: </strong>The survey revealed that a considerable, but uneven, distribution of OTs were involved in research. To encourage greater participation in research, researchers, decision-makers, and employee associations should take steps to make research more appealing to OTs. The research priorities highlighted by Norwegian OTs align with those stated by OTs in other countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50159153","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":"Transitioning from an occupational therapy student to a clinically competent occupational therapist - A qualitative study.","authors":"Patrik Sjöberg, Annika Lexén","doi":"10.1080/11038128.2024.2398498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11038128.2024.2398498","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The transition process from being an occupational therapy student to becoming an occupational therapist has been shown to be stressful, with an increased risk of burnout and job turnover. Consequently, there is a need to gain a deeper understanding of this process in order to identify ways of making it easier.</p><p><strong>Aims/objectives: </strong>To describe newly graduated Swedish occupational therapists' experiences of the transition from being an occupational therapy student to becoming a clinically competent occupational therapist.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>A qualitative study involving 15 participants was conducted using interviews to collect data and content data analysis was undertaken to capture occupational therapists' experiences of the transition process.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A theme emerged: 'Bridging the gap by seeking stability in the transition from occupational therapy student to clinically competent occupational therapist', with two sub-themes, 1) 'Facing a new reality' and 2) 'Establishing one's role', containing categories that encapsulated experiences of the transition.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and significance: </strong>To bridge the gap in the transition process, universities could review their curricula to identify changes to better prepare newly graduated occupational therapists for the demands of clinical practice. Employers hiring new graduates need to offer comprehensive orientation and access to mentorship for support.</p>","PeriodicalId":49570,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142114086","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}