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Therapist and patient perceptions of the occupational therapy goal-setting process
— a pilot study | | Author(s) | Erin McAndrew, Stacey McDermott, Shelley Vitzakovitch |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 17, no 1, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 55-64 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Occupational therapy ; Occupational therapists ; Patients ; Coordination. |
| Annotation | Recent literature in occupational therapy (OT) and nursing indicates that collaborative goal setting can lead to increased patient satisfaction, shorter in-patient stays and better goal attainment. Therapist and patient collaboration on goal formulation, beliefs of their relevance, and how they are to be accomplished are essential for better treatment outcomes. Questionnaires from a matched convenience sample of 10 registered occupational therapists and 10 OT patients were analysed to determine if, and when, differences occurred in perceptions about the collaborative nature of the goal-setting process. The findings indicate that therapists were uniformly positive about the collaboration that occurred during goal setting, but their patients were more neutral. Patients were more positive about the process of collaboration, but less so about the substance of that collaboration. Perceptions about the collaborative nature of the goal setting process were significantly discrepant for several topics including discussion of patient interests, purpose of activities chosen, and availability of assistance after discharge, with patients being less positive about the collaboration. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000608218 A |
| Classmark | LOH: QTR: LF: QAJ |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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