Occupational Therapy
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Subject information
Occupational Therapy focuses on knowledge about how human occupation influences the development, health and wellbeing of individuals. The subject includes knowledge on how people choose and prioritize their activities related to their resources and what they find meaningful. Further how disease, injury and physical, social and societal circumstances affect the occupational performance, occupational balance and participation of the individual. Occupation as a therapeutic mean and Occupational Therapy interventions that are prescribed to promote occupational performance are also studied in Occupational Therapy.
The Occupational Therapy research at Örebro University concerns promoting health and enabling occupational performance and participation for people with disability and impairment. The research projects are focused on I) the development of new interventions and investigating their effects, II) the development and evaluation of instruments to measure occupational performance or III) describing and understanding the everyday life of people with disabilities in order to generate more knowledge to understand different life aspects related to activity and participation.
Researchers
- Nina Buer
- Jenny Hedberg Graff
- Liselotte Hermansson
- Marie Holmefur
- Marie Jönsson
- Kajsa Lidström-Holmqvist
- Helen Lindner
- Lis Sjöberg
- Cathrine Widehammar
- Maria Yilmaz
- Johanna Adrian, PhD student
- Alexandra Björck, PhD student
- Jonathan Hedlund, PhD student
- Lena Johansson, PhD student
- Nina Ramezani, PhD student
- Lisa Spang, 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
- Everyday activities in older adults readmitted to hospital and discharged to home
- Freedom, Rights and Existence for Everyone - in a digital society (FREE)
- 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.
- Rethinking Environments in Dementia Care Homes (REDem) - paving the way for equality in care delivery
- 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