Relationships between occupational therapy students' understandings of disability and disability attitudes.

CONCLUSIONS: OT students have established beliefs of disability as individualized or more socially constructed and these influence disability biases. SIGNIFICANCE: Students' education has considerable influence in shaping attitudes and ways of interacting with people with disability. Understanding students' assumptions as they enter a program is a first step to evaluate how curriculum design may influence development of student clinical reasoning strategies. PMID: 30946612 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy - Category: Occupational Health Tags: Scand J Occup Ther Source Type: research