OTDV 808 - July 2023

“Follow-up period for all participants was 495.33 (267.97) days: 637.48 (164.61) days for the GOT + IOT group and 358.25 (277.90) days for the GOT-alone group. As shown in Table 3, of the total 109 patients, 55 (50.46%) were male, the mean age was 42.07 (SD = 10.66) years, 92 (84.40%) were diagnosed with schizophrenia, 53 (48.62%) had received GOT + IOT during their hospital stay, 62 (56.88%) had access to resident support persons, and 81 (74.31%) had good medication adherence. Patients who received GOT + IOT indicated better trends than those who received GOT alone for each assessment score result at discharge (Table 4).”

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“Three primary themes emerged from the second-year occupational therapy student focus group: uncertainty of professional expectations, searching for answers through concrete concepts, and the context-specific nature of professionalism.”

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“We recruited 25 patients hospitalized for 15 days with post-stroke upper extremity paralysis to receive 12 sessions of low-frequency rTMS over the non-lesioned hemisphere and occupational therapy. In this study, 72% of the patients had suffered from intracranial haemorrhage. Imaging analysis was performed using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to assess changes in white matter after intervention.”

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“This study explores occupational therapists' (OT) perceptions of indicators for occupational therapy interventions among patients with chronic pain. An exploratory design was applied to six focus groups of OTs (n = 25) for data collection. Analysis was performed using content analysis through identification of meaning units, codes, categories and themes.”

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“The purpose of this study was to evaluate the assumption that occupational therapy provided to preschool children with developmental delays and preschool children without disabilities will significantly improve their visual-motor skills.”

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“This study explores occupational therapists' (OT) perceptions of indicators for occupational therapy interventions among patients with chronic pain. An exploratory design was applied to six focus groups of OTs (n = 25) for data collection. Analysis was performed using content analysis through identification of meaning units, codes, categories and themes.”

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