Occupational therapy for persons with cognitive impairments
CONCLUSIONS: Based on this systematic overview, it can neither be proven nor excluded with certainty that occupational therapy for cognitive impairment is an effective therapy for adult patients with central nervous system injuries compared to no occupational therapy. There is a lack of randomised trials with sufficient sample size, well-defined interventions, and comparable concomitant therapies in the control groups, but there is also a lack of well-designed observational studies in routine care and health economic studies. The identified systematic reviews on patient and social aspects provide information on the needs of patients after stroke or traumatic brain injury and their relatives, but there is a lack of studies on this aspect in German-speaking countries. For the ethical assessment, in addition to the identified theoretical models for solving ethical conflicts in occupational therapy, more empirical studies on ethical aspects with patients with cognitive deficits and their relatives as well as occupational therapists are needed.PMID:37260919 | PMC:PMC10227641 | DOI:10.3205/000316
Source: GMS German Medical Science - Category: General Medicine Authors: Petra Schnell-Inderst Annette Conrads-Frank Igor Stojkov Cornelia Krenn Lisa-Maria Kofler Uwe Siebert Source Type: research
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