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FEATURE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Creating a new research
agenda for occupational
therapists
What are the most important research questions for
occupational therapists? Jenny Mac Donnell is set
to find out
R
COT has embarked on a major new research
project to define the occupational therapy
profession’s research priorities. What are the big
questions that occupational therapists, service
users and carers in the UK want answered?
RCOT’s research priorities were most recently defined
in 2007 in Building the evidence for occupational
therapy: Priorities for research. As the RCOT’s
research and development review moves
towards drafting the new research and
development strategy, the time
is now right to establish the
UK occupational therapy
profession’s research
priorities for the future.
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