Professional resources
Welcome to the June issue of BJOT . This month , our leading editorial , ‘ The time is now to upscale all placements to a minimum of two students ’, is by Volkert . The authors argue to effectively double our placement capacity in occupational therapy and introduce a peerlearning approach .
Hand et al , in their article ‘ Examining utility and feasibility of implementing patient-reported outcome measures in occupational therapy primary care practice ’, explored the utility and feasibility of implementing patient-reported outcome measures ( PROMs ) within occupational therapy primary care practice .
PROMs appear useful within occupational therapy primary care falls prevention services and can be feasible with attention to administration processes .
Roberts and Skipsey continue our issue with ‘ Exploring occupation in recovery from bulimia nervosa : An interpretative phenomenological analysis ’.
This study utilised Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to explore the recovery experiences of six adult women with histories of bulimia nervosa and interpret how their accounts reflected the assumptions and characteristics of occupation .
In ‘ Learning , translating , and applying the perceive , recall , plan , perform system of task analysis assessment to practice : occupational therapists ’ experiences ’, Burrows et al explored occupational therapists ’ experiences of embedding the Perceive , Recall , Plan , Perform System of Task Analysis ( PRPP ) assessment in practice and gained understandings of the clinical utility . Five themes emerged , and the PRPP assessment added value to occupational therapists ’ practice .
Drummond et al , in ‘ Managing post-stroke fatigue : a qualitative study to explore multifaceted clinical perspectives ’, used a qualitative interview study , recruiting approximately 20 participants with expertise in managing PSF and fatigue arising from other conditions .
Analysis generated core themes around management and strategies used . There are clear similarities in clinicians ’ experiences of managing PSF and fatigue across different conditions and also across professional groups .
Dibsdall , in ‘ Selecting from their toolbox of interventions – a realist study of the role of occupational
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therapists in reablement services ’, presents results of a study of the role of occupational therapists in reablement services that involve two organisations .
The conceptual framework developed from the study can be used by organisations when commissioning and developing reablement services to consider the different contextual layers of reablement .
Temizkan et al , in a cross-sectional study ‘ Subjective health and associative social factors in emerging adults with different levels of participation limitations ’, aimed to investigate subjective health and associative variables in emerging adults with different levels of participation limitations .
Different approaches are needed to improve the subjectively perceived health status of emerging adults . BJOT , as a global journal , includes many articles of international relevance to occupational therapy in other countries and cultures .
In ‘ Translation and initial validation of the occupational balance questionnaire to Arabic – Occupational Balance Questionnaire-A ’ Dhas et al describe the translation process of OBQ11 to Arabic and to evaluate its content validity , internal consistency , construct validity , and convergent validity , showing that OBQ11-A may prove useful for assessing OB in Arabicspeaking populations .
Ottewell presents their study , ‘ Working in disability employment : an interpretative phenomenological study of experiences of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia ’, aiming to understand how employees with schizophrenia in disability employment interpret their work experience .
Finally , Ohl and Schelley , in ‘ No evidence of a minimal clinically important difference for the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration in children with autism spectrum disorder ’, give evidence demonstrating further support for research cautioning the use of the Beery VMI as an outcome measure .
To read the latest and past issues www . rcot . co . uk / practice-resources / journals / bjot .
Join an RCOT community dialogue event
RCOT is supporting the addition of a pre-registration doctoral level entry route into the occupational therapy profession in the UK ( see page 12 ).
To support this , RCOT is hosting a series of events for ongoing community dialogue . RCOT wants to work with you to make sure this route is accessible and meets the needs of the profession and people accessing services . In these sessions , you ’ ll be able to explore these themes and help identify the immediate and ongoing actions that are needed .
Some of these events will already have taken place by the time of publication of this issue , but there will be some further events taking place . See the RCOT events page for more information
www . rcot . co . uk / events and find more about each theme and project here www . rcot . co . uk / doctoral-level-entry-ot .
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