Occupational Therapy
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Occupational Therapy – Everyday Occupation as the Key to Health and Participation
Occupational therapy as a research field encompasses knowledge about human occupation in daily activities and how occupation relates to individual participation, health, and development. This includes understanding the relationship between occupation and the individual's resources and conditions, as well as the social and physical environment. Furthermore, it involves examining how illness, injury, and physical, social, and societal conditions affect an individual's ability to perform activities, activity patterns, and participation. Activity as a therapeutic agent and occupational therapy interventions aimed at promoting individuals' activity performance are also key areas of knowledge within the field of occupational therapy. The subject is closely related to occupational science, which studies the significance of human occupation in relation to health, diversity, and societal perspectives.
Research in occupational therapy at Örebro University is conducted by several interdisciplinary research groups. A common theme among these groups is the aim to investigate and describe how aspects of activity and participation influence health and well-being in individuals with various health conditions or disabilities. Additionally, many research projects focus on developing occupational therapy interventions and evaluating their effects on individuals' activity performance and participation.
Researchers
- Nina Buer
- Liselotte Hermansson
- Marie Holmefur
- Marie Jönsson
- Kajsa Lidström-Holmqvist
- Helen Lindner
- Lis Sjöberg
- Lisa Spang
- Cathrine Widehammar
- Maria Yilmaz
- Johanna Adrian, PhD student
- Alexandra Björck, PhD student
- Nina Ramezani, PhD student
- Lena Strålman, PhD student
- Elin Widmark, PhD student
- Maria Wingren, PhD student
Research projects
Active projects
- Ageing in the right place - experiences of daily life leading to a nursing home application.
- Assessment of Capacity for Myoelectric Control (ACMC)
- Congenital limb deficiency - early intervention and later outcomes
- Cross cultural adaptation, validation and the use of the Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Questionnaire (AFCCQ)
- Development of the Assisting Hand Assessment-PAD: A Rasch-built performance measure for people with unilateral upper limb prosthesis (P), amputation (A) or reduction deficiency (D)
- Evaluation of the "Let's Get Organized" group intervention to improve time management: a multi-centre randomized controlled trial
- Evaluation of The Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) Approach for adolescents with mild intellectual disability
- Everyday activities in older adults readmitted to hospital and discharged to home
- In the light of COVID-19 pandemic - efforts of community staff to prevent and minimize the spread of COVID-19 virus among older people who visit community day centres.
- Partnering for Change (P4C) - A school-based occupational therapy intervention in Swedish schools
- Promoting Dance Movements with Welfare Technology
- Reablement in residential aged care (Re-RAC)? a randomized controlled trail
- Rethinking Environments in Dementia Care Homes (REDem) - paving the way for equality in care delivery
- To be in control of time - evaluation of instruments assessing Time processing ability and daily time management in adults with intellectual disability
- Visuohaptic skills in early brain-based visual impairment
Completed projects
- Assessment of difficulties in everyday life - validation of the Swedish self-administered version of World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 in a psychiatric population
- Benefit and use of myoelectric prosthesis
- Bibliometric analysis of research within the area of assistive technology devices
- Can prosthetic wrist reduce compensatory movements among upper limb prosthesis users?
- Creative activities as a means in therapy
- Effect of a powered assistive device for people with low grip force in the hand
- Evaluation of the self-rated questionnaire Assessment of Time Management Skills (ATMS)
- Eye gaze technology in everyday activities for persons with disabilities
- Further development of the Assisting Hand Assessment (AHA)
- Long term follow-up of 'Let's get organized' - an intervention to improve time management
- Longitudinal development of hand function in children and youth with unilateral cerebral palsy
- Parents' experiences of time management and parenthood after the intervention Let's Get Organized.
- Pilot study of "Let's Get Organized" - a group intervention to improve time management skills
- Psychometric properties of two assessment tools for use in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy - Childrens Hand-use Experience Questionnaire and the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory
- The significance of a powered wheelchair: focus on elderly users, next of kin and cost-effectiveness
- Translation and evaluation of test-retest reliability of the Weekly Calendar Planning Activity (WCPA)
- Translation and validation of the Swedish version of the World Health Organization - Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0