Pediatric Occupational Therapists' Perspectives on Sleep: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The findings identify themes on the basis of which actionable steps toward promoting occupational therapists as sleep champions can be developed. Future implications include increasing sleep education opportunities, enhancing awareness of sleep health's impact on goal areas, and facilitating discussions about occupational therapy's role within the medical system and family system in supporting sleep. Plain-Language Summary: This qualitative study identifies what helps and hinders occupational therapists in addressing the sleep health concerns of their clients. We give occupational therapy clinici...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 21, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Amy G Hartman Kaitlyn Caspero Stefanie C Bodison Adriane Soehner Murat Akcakaya Dilhari DeAlmeida Roxanna Bendixen Source Type: research

Pediatric Occupational Therapists' Perspectives on Sleep: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The findings identify themes on the basis of which actionable steps toward promoting occupational therapists as sleep champions can be developed. Future implications include increasing sleep education opportunities, enhancing awareness of sleep health's impact on goal areas, and facilitating discussions about occupational therapy's role within the medical system and family system in supporting sleep. Plain-Language Summary: This qualitative study identifies what helps and hinders occupational therapists in addressing the sleep health concerns of their clients. We give occupational therapy clinici...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 21, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Amy G Hartman Kaitlyn Caspero Stefanie C Bodison Adriane Soehner Murat Akcakaya Dilhari DeAlmeida Roxanna Bendixen Source Type: research

Pediatric Occupational Therapists' Perspectives on Sleep: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The findings identify themes on the basis of which actionable steps toward promoting occupational therapists as sleep champions can be developed. Future implications include increasing sleep education opportunities, enhancing awareness of sleep health's impact on goal areas, and facilitating discussions about occupational therapy's role within the medical system and family system in supporting sleep. Plain-Language Summary: This qualitative study identifies what helps and hinders occupational therapists in addressing the sleep health concerns of their clients. We give occupational therapy clinici...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 21, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Amy G Hartman Kaitlyn Caspero Stefanie C Bodison Adriane Soehner Murat Akcakaya Dilhari DeAlmeida Roxanna Bendixen Source Type: research

Pediatric Occupational Therapists' Perspectives on Sleep: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The findings identify themes on the basis of which actionable steps toward promoting occupational therapists as sleep champions can be developed. Future implications include increasing sleep education opportunities, enhancing awareness of sleep health's impact on goal areas, and facilitating discussions about occupational therapy's role within the medical system and family system in supporting sleep. Plain-Language Summary: This qualitative study identifies what helps and hinders occupational therapists in addressing the sleep health concerns of their clients. We give occupational therapy clinici...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 21, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Amy G Hartman Kaitlyn Caspero Stefanie C Bodison Adriane Soehner Murat Akcakaya Dilhari DeAlmeida Roxanna Bendixen Source Type: research

Going Beyond Management and Maintenance: Occupational Therapy's Role in Primary Prevention for Adults at Risk of Obesity-Is the Elephant in the Room Still the Biggest Challenge?
Am J Occup Ther. 2024 Mar 1;78(2):7802050020. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2024.050737.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38506822 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050737 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 20, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen Chloe Muntefering Beth Fields Source Type: research

Going Beyond Management and Maintenance: Occupational Therapy's Role in Primary Prevention for Adults at Risk of Obesity-Is the Elephant in the Room Still the Biggest Challenge?
Am J Occup Ther. 2024 Mar 1;78(2):7802050020. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2024.050737.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38506822 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050737 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 20, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jeanette Reffstrup Christensen Chloe Muntefering Beth Fields Source Type: research

"You're Someone Different Now": An Autoethnography on Identity and Occupational Identity Disruption After Traumatic Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Identity is created by occupational engagement. Occupational therapy practitioners can better serve their clients by exploring identity disruption and occupational identity disruption after TBI. Plain-Language Summary: This article describes the lived experience of identity disruption and occupational identity disruption with an emphasis on the transformative nature of occupation. Occupational therapists should work collaboratively with clients to identify key occupations that support their sense of identity.PMID:38502115 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050411 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 19, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Andi Brown Devin C Barth Amanda R Leslie Source Type: research

Purpose in Life as an Explicit Outcome of Occupational Therapy
Am J Occup Ther. 2024 May 1;78(3):7803347010. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2024.050428.ABSTRACTPurpose in life is increasingly understood to be important to health and well-being. Despite occupational therapy's long history of using occupations to advance health and the linkage between a subclass of occupations and purpose in life, the term is nearly absent from the American Occupational Therapy Association's documents and the profession's empirical literature. We propose that the profession explicitly name purpose in life as among our intervention outcomes and address disruptions of purpose in life in practice. This can be accomplis...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 19, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Mary Vining Radomski Mattie Anheluk Ginger Carroll Joette Zola Source Type: research

"You're Someone Different Now": An Autoethnography on Identity and Occupational Identity Disruption After Traumatic Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Identity is created by occupational engagement. Occupational therapy practitioners can better serve their clients by exploring identity disruption and occupational identity disruption after TBI. Plain-Language Summary: This article describes the lived experience of identity disruption and occupational identity disruption with an emphasis on the transformative nature of occupation. Occupational therapists should work collaboratively with clients to identify key occupations that support their sense of identity.PMID:38502115 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050411 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 19, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Andi Brown Devin C Barth Amanda R Leslie Source Type: research

The Breakfast and Dressing Conflict Task: Preliminary Evidence of Its Validity to Measure Online Self-Awareness After Acquired Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: These preliminary findings suggest that the BD Conflict Task is a valid tool to assess online SA in patients with ABI and provide further understanding of the online SA-offline SA interaction. Furthermore, the ADL Conflict-Monitoring Index may be a valid and easy-to-use monitoring measure in clinical settings. Plain-Language Summary: Patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) and reduced awareness of their cognitive deficits face problems performing activities of daily living (ADLs) and may show signs of unsafe behaviors. Being aware of one's own abilities involves anticipating problems before sta...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Giorgia Ricchetti Alba Navarro-Egido Mar ía Rodríguez-Bailón Daniel Salazar-Fr ías Jose Antonio Merch án-Baeza Mar ía Patrocinio Ariza-Vega Mar ía J Funes Source Type: research

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Poststroke Hemiparesis: A Scoping Review
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results indicate that SCS may provide an alternative means to improve motor function in the poststroke population. Plain-Language Summary: The results of this study show that spinal cord stimulation may provide an alternative way to improve motor function after stroke. Previous neuromodulation methods have targeted the impaired supraspinal circuitry after stroke. Although downregulated, spinal cord circuitry is largely intact and offers new possibilities for motor recovery.PMID:38477681 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050533 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jonathan R Allen Swathi R Karri Chen Yang Mary Ellen Stoykov Source Type: research

Measuring Upper Extremity Activity of Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Using Wrist-Worn Accelerometers: A Pilot Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Wrist-worn accelerometry can provide objective information on real-world habitual activity with both arms in children. Accelerometers are nonintrusive, easy to use, and well tolerated by children, and they allow prolonged monitoring of UE activity outside therapeutic contexts. Occupational therapists can use wrist-worn accelerometers as sensitive tools to assess asymmetries in UE use at baseline and as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of behavioral interventions and carryover into real-world settings among children with UCP. Plain-Language Summary: This pilot study provides promising evi...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sudha Srinivasan Nidhi Amonkar Patrick D Kumavor Deborah Bubela Source Type: research

The Breakfast and Dressing Conflict Task: Preliminary Evidence of Its Validity to Measure Online Self-Awareness After Acquired Brain Injury
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: These preliminary findings suggest that the BD Conflict Task is a valid tool to assess online SA in patients with ABI and provide further understanding of the online SA-offline SA interaction. Furthermore, the ADL Conflict-Monitoring Index may be a valid and easy-to-use monitoring measure in clinical settings. Plain-Language Summary: Patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) and reduced awareness of their cognitive deficits face problems performing activities of daily living (ADLs) and may show signs of unsafe behaviors. Being aware of one's own abilities involves anticipating problems before sta...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Giorgia Ricchetti Alba Navarro-Egido Mar ía Rodríguez-Bailón Daniel Salazar-Fr ías Jose Antonio Merch án-Baeza Mar ía Patrocinio Ariza-Vega Mar ía J Funes Source Type: research

Spinal Cord Stimulation for Poststroke Hemiparesis: A Scoping Review
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Results indicate that SCS may provide an alternative means to improve motor function in the poststroke population. Plain-Language Summary: The results of this study show that spinal cord stimulation may provide an alternative way to improve motor function after stroke. Previous neuromodulation methods have targeted the impaired supraspinal circuitry after stroke. Although downregulated, spinal cord circuitry is largely intact and offers new possibilities for motor recovery.PMID:38477681 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2024.050533 (Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy)
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Jonathan R Allen Swathi R Karri Chen Yang Mary Ellen Stoykov Source Type: research

Measuring Upper Extremity Activity of Children With Unilateral Cerebral Palsy Using Wrist-Worn Accelerometers: A Pilot Study
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Wrist-worn accelerometry can provide objective information on real-world habitual activity with both arms in children. Accelerometers are nonintrusive, easy to use, and well tolerated by children, and they allow prolonged monitoring of UE activity outside therapeutic contexts. Occupational therapists can use wrist-worn accelerometers as sensitive tools to assess asymmetries in UE use at baseline and as an outcome measure to assess the efficacy of behavioral interventions and carryover into real-world settings among children with UCP. Plain-Language Summary: This pilot study provides promising evi...
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - March 13, 2024 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sudha Srinivasan Nidhi Amonkar Patrick D Kumavor Deborah Bubela Source Type: research