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- Barchéus, Ida-Maria, et al.
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Occupational therapists’ experiences of using a new internet-based intervention - a focus group study
- 2023
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1103-8128 .- 1651-2014. ; 31:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BackgroundResearch is limited about how the introduction of new ways of delivering and conducting occupational therapy, in accordance with expected changes in health care, is experienced by occupational therapists (OTs).AimTo explore how OTs experienced use of a new internet-based intervention, ‘Strategies for Empowering activities in Everyday life’ (SEE), focusing on supporting client resources to manage an active everyday life after stroke.Material and methodsA focus group study with periodical repeated discussion was designed. Four sessions during a period of 22 months were conducted with a total of four OTs.ResultOverall, the results reflected that the OTs experienced that the use of SEE for persons with stroke was a valuable complement to existing rehabilitation. The process of introducing SEE included a multifaceted transition involving context, intervention process and delivery that renewed occupational therapy.ConclusionThese results indicate how the use of new internet-based interventions such as SEE can influence and support renewal of occupational therapy that extends beyond the particular intervention. Continued research is needed to explore more aspects of SEE feasibility.
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- Lindberg, Monika, et al.
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Work and everyday life in a digitalized time: Experiences of people with subjective cognitive difficulties related to neurological disorders
- 2021
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Ingår i: PLOS ONE. - : PLOS. - 1932-6203. ; 16:11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: Digitalization has changed working life and increased cognitive demands on employees in general. Nevertheless, the consequences for employees with cognitive impairments and subjective cognitive difficulties are to a large extent unexplored. The aim of this study was to explore and describe how employees with subjective cognitive difficulties who are performing digital work tasks experience their vocational situation and how this situation influences their everyday life.Methods: A qualitative, descriptive, multiple-case study was designed. Self-reports, assessments and qualitative interviews were used to collect data from the seven participants with neurological disorders. The data were analysed using pattern matching.Findings: The analysed data formed four categories conceptualized as "Working to my full potential", "Working, but it is largely up to me", "Working at the expense of everyday life" and "Working without known difficulties", and these categories included one to four subcategories.Conclusion: Managing subjective cognitive difficulties in vocational situations and everyday life was challenging in a digitalized working life for participants with neurological disorders. To provide equal access to preventive measures and rehabilitation and a sustainable working life, it is important to investigate the influence of subjective cognitive difficulties systematically on work, everyday life and management strategies in people with neurological disorders in digitalized work.
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- Kassberg, Ann-Charlotte, et al.
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Perceived occupational balance in people with stroke
- 2021
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Ingår i: Disability and Rehabilitation. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0963-8288 .- 1464-5165. ; 43:4, s. 553-558
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background The balance of activities in daily life can become disrupted after a stroke; however, previous research has mainly focused on the performance of daily activities. Therefore, it is important to understand the impact that stroke has on various aspects of balance in activities for working-age people.Purpose To describe how persons with stroke perceived their occupational balance and to explore whether occupational balance was associated with the severity of disability, fatigue and sociodemographic characteristics.Methods This cross-sectional study included 63 working-age persons with stroke. The Occupational Balance Questionnaire, Glasgow Outcome Scale and Fatigue Severity Scale were used and analyzed statistically.Results The majority of participants disagreed or strongly disagreed that they perceived occupational balance in most of the investigated aspects. Moreover, few significant associations were found between total summed occupational balance and injury and sociodemographic characteristics.Conclusion These results demonstrate the importance of considering occupational balance in the rehabilitation of persons with stroke to support their engagement in a variety of meaningful activities that contribute to health.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONRehabilitation need to support persons with stroke to monitor their entire patterns of activities and perceived balance to support wider engagement in meaningful activities and promote health.Balance between all kinds of activities in daily life besides work, needs to be considered in the later phase of rehabilitation in persons with stroke.A majority of the participants with stroke in this study disagreed that they had a satisfying level of occupational balance.Perceived balance between all activities in daily life can together with performance of activities add to the understanding of consequences after stroke.
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- Kottorp, Anders, et al.
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Gender and diagnostic impact on everyday technology use : a differential item functioning (DIF) analysis of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ)
- 2019
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Ingår i: Disability and Rehabilitation. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0963-8288 .- 1464-5165. ; 41:22, s. 2688-2694
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: As the use of everyday technology is increasingly important for participation in daily activities, more in-depth knowledge of everyday technology use in relation to diagnosis and gender is needed. The purpose of this study was to investigate the stability of the perceived challenge of a variety of everyday technologies across different samples of varying diagnoses including both males and females.Methods: This cross-sectional study used 643 data records from clinical and research samples, including persons with dementia or related disorders, acquired brain injury, intellectual disability, various mental or medical disorders, and adults without known diagnoses. The Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire, comprising 93 everyday technology artifacts and services (items) measuring the level of everyday technology challenge and relevance of and perceived ability to use these was used for data gathering. A two-faceted Rasch model in combination with differential item functioning (DIF) analyses were used for comparing item hierarchies across samples.Results: Only three items (3.2%) demonstrated a clinically relevant DIF by gender, and nine items (9.7%) by diagnosis.Discussion: The findings support a stable hierarchy of everyday technology challenge in home and community that can facilitate planning of an accessible and inclusive society from a technological departure point.Implications for RehabilitationThe ability to manage everyday technology is increasingly important for participation in everyday activities at home and in the community for people with and without disabilities.This study demonstrates that differences in perceived challenges in using various everyday technologies across gender and diagnosis are minimal.The findings provide evidence of no or minor systematic bias in testing when using the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire in clinical practice and research.Empirical knowledge about the perceived challenge of specific everyday technologies of people with variations in gender or diagnosis is still sparse, hence this study can inspire practice and future research.
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- Larsson-Lund, Maria, 1967-
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A new landscape for higher education evolves : How can digital competence be enhanced to match the needs in the digital society?
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The presentation will give an insight in why and how higher education need to change to improve professionals’ digital competence to better prepare them for future work in the digitized society including health care and social services. Also, in how the digitalization and the increased use of technology influence citizens’ possibilities to activity, participation and health. The presentation will be based on research and experiences from improvement work in higher education focusing on digitalization, digital competence and e-learning. The improvement work includes changes of learning outcomes and learning activities as the use of open educational resources (OER), person learning network (PLN), academic communities, student generated content and other tools in e-learning.
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- Larsson-Lund, Maria, 1967-, et al.
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Accessing public space in the digital society: relationship between the use of everyday technology and places visited outside the home after acquired brain injury
- 2022
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Ingår i: Disability and Rehabilitation. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0963-8288 .- 1464-5165. ; 44:23, s. 7059-7068
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: In the digital society, people need to make use of a range of everyday technology (ET) when engaging in activities in various places outside home. The aim of this study was to describe and compare the use of ET and places visited outside the home and, also, to describe the relationship between them in people with different severity of disability after acquired brain injury (ABI).Materials and methods: Instruments addressing ET use, places visited outside the home and severity of disability were used to assess 74 individuals with ABI. Relationships were analyzed statistically.Results: A significantly higher use of personal ET related to public space and public space ET, a higher ability to use ET and more places visited outside the home was found in those with good recovery (GR) compared to those with moderate disability/severe disability (MD/SD). The use of ET was significantly correlated with places visited in the total sample and in those with MD/SD, but for those with GR, no significant correlations were found.Conclusions: To facilitate participation after ABI, the relationship between the use of ET and places visited outside the home needs to be assessed in rehabilitation.
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- Larsson-Lund, Maria, 1967-, et al.
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Begreppen delaktighet och aktivitet: utmaningar och möjligheter för utbildning, praxis och forskning
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aktivitetsbegreppet är och har varit centralt inom arbetsterapi sedan professionens begynnelse. Dock har fokus på aktivitet varit mer eller mindre tydligt under olika paradigm inom arbetsterapi och i det framväxande och nutida aktivitetsparadigmet framhålls utmaningar att arbeta utifrån en aktivitetsfokuserad och aktivitetsbaserad praxis. Det är därför intressant att reflektera över hur begrepp som relateras till arbetsterapins teoribildning kommit att influera vår utbildning, praxis och forskning. Ett sådant begrepp är delaktighet. Begreppet delaktighet har kommit att influera arbetsterapi framförallt efter introduktionen av den internationella klassifikationen för funktionstillstånd, funktionshinder och hälsa (ICF). Begreppet delaktighet kom snabbt därefter att, på olika sätt, inkluderas och eller relateras till praxismodeller i arbetsterapi. En reflektion av hur delaktighetsbegreppet knyts an till praxismodeller kan identifiera utmaningar och möjligheter relaterat till arbetsterapins unika fokus på aktivitet. Syftet med workshopen är att generera en diskussion inom arbetsterapi kring användningen av begreppen delaktighet och aktivitet i utbildning, forskning och yrkesutövning. Tillvägagångssätt: Reflektion och diskussion i grupp utifrån frågeställningar som baseras på en granskning av begreppen delaktighet och aktivitet i praxismodeller i arbetsterapi. Förväntat resultat En ökad medvetenhet om hur begreppen används och kan stödja en aktivitetsfokuserad och aktivitetsbaserad praxis och forskning.
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- Larsson-Lund, Maria, 1967-, et al.
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Digitaliseringen i samhället : Nya möjligheter för människans aktivitet, professionen, utbildningen och forskningen?
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- WorkshopDigitaliseringen i samhället: Nya möjligheter för människans aktivitet, professionen, utbildningen och forskningen?Bakgrund: Digitaliseringen har bidragit till en ökad användning av teknik i våra aktiviteter i hem, skola, på arbetsplatser och i samhället Digital kompentens har följaktligen blivit en viktig förutsättning för ett självständigt, aktivt liv, för delaktighet och inklusion i samhället, för hälsa och välbefinnande hos de klientgrupper arbetsterapeuten möter. Det här förändrar delvis arbetsterapeutens (framtida) arbetsinnehåll och arbetssätt. Likaså bidrar digitaliseringen till en ständig utveckling av digitala verktyg och tjänster samt ny e- hälsa teknik, vilka kommer att förändra arbetssätten inom hälso-och sjukvård. Digital kompetens är följaktligen av stor vikt för arbetsterapeuter liksom andra yrkesgrupper inom hälso- och sjukvård. Såväl nationellt som internationellt påtalas vikten av att utbildning reorganiseras så att digitaliseringen och den tekniska utvecklingen tillvaratas för att motsvara (framtida) behov i samhället och för att öka utbildningens kvalité. I linje med detta definieras digital kompetens av EU som en av nyckel komponenterna för livslångtlärande. Mot bakgrund till denna utveckling i samhället behöver utvecklingsområden för kunskaper i arbetsterapi identifieras. Kunskaper om digitaliseringen, kvalitets kriterier för e- lärande, teorier/ modeller för digital kompetens och e-lärande samt digitala verktyg kan utgöra ett stöd i detta utvecklingsarbete.Syftet med workshopen är att bidra till en ökad insikt i digitaleringens betydelse för människors aktiviteter, för professionen arbetsterapeut, vår utbildning och forskning.Förväntat resultat: Avsikten är att stärka deltagarnas digitala kompetens kring de effekter digitaliseringen kan få för människans aktiviteter och skapa bättre beredskap för att möta utmaningar och möjligheter som digitaliseringen medför. Vidare att ge ökad förståelse för den kompetens som kommer krävas av framtidens arbetsterapeuter och behovet av livslångt lärande.
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- Larsson-Lund, Maria, 1967-, et al.
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Occupational challenges in a digital society : A discussion inspiring occupational therapy to cross thresholds and embrace possibilities
- 2020
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1103-8128 .- 1651-2014. ; 27:8, s. 550-553
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The digital transformation of society and the increased need for digital competence implies extensive changes in peoples’ everyday lives and occupations. Heretofore, the discussion in the field of occupational therapy about the consequences of digitalisation has been vague. The aim of this discussion paper is to outline some reflections and to offer some arguments on how to meet the changes following digitalisation and its impact on occupational therapy. The discussion focuses on three issues: the new conditions for participation in a digital society and the role of occupational therapy and occupational therapists in the evolving digital society as well as what occupational therapists need to be pro-active and to embrace the ongoing changes in a digital society. In conclusion, occupational therapy needs to advance its position and become pro-active to cross the threshold and to embrace the possibilities that digitalisation holds for peoples’ everyday lives to support occupational justice and health.
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