AJOT

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Importance: Child refugees face high developmental risks, often linked to disruptions in their everyday activities, an issue that may be addressed through occupation-centered interventions. Objective: To examine the existing evidence on the effects of occupation-centered interventions targeting displaced families and children on children’s participation in everyday activities.

Importance: Technology-based adjuncts have been used to incentivize and boost upper extremity (UE) motor rehabilitation among children with unilateral cerebral palsy (UCP). Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and perceived benefit of a clinician-delivered ride-on-toy navigation training (RNT) program. Design: Single-group pretest–posttest design. Setting: Three-week task-oriented UE training camp. Participants: Children with UCP (N = 13) ages 4 to 11 yr.

Importance: Stakeholder voices advance client-centered, culturally responsive occupational therapy research. Objective: To describe how engagement of culturally diverse, multilingual, and multidisciplinary stakeholders shaped a project aimed at culturally adapting an evidence-based autism intervention. Design: A mixed-methods design was used to evaluate stakeholder engagement.

Occupational therapy practitioners are increasingly likely to encounter clients who intentionally view sexually explicit media (i.e., pornography). Pornography use may be adaptive, neutral, or maladaptive depending on several variables: whether its use is causing the client distress; whether it is affecting their daily occupations and relationships; its degree of congruence with their values; and environmental constraints, such as client privacy, isolation, and disability.

Importance: Sensory processing disorders have been found mostly among school-age children exposed to traumatic events or after maltreatment. Therefore, it is important to examine sensory processing and emotional distress among young children exposed to traumatic events after a collective terror attack. Objective: To examine the correlation between sensory processing patterns and emotional distress among young children exposed to traumatic events after a terror attack.

Importance: Occupational therapists and peer supporters share recovery-oriented values and increasingly collaborate in mental health settings. However, the structure and implementation of this collaboration remain unclear. Objective: To map the literature on collaborative practices between occupational therapists and peer supporters in mental health, focusing on structures, roles, perceived benefits, and challenges.

Importance: Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) symptoms affect people’s activity behaviors, limiting their daily participation. Integrating activity pacing strategies into occupational therapy may improve chronic pain management. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of activity management (AM) in improving activity patterns, limitations related to FMS, occupational performance, occupational balance, and quality of life among women with FMS. Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Importance: Refugee adolescents face significant barriers to daily participation, including economic hardships, health concerns, trauma, and social isolation. Objective: To explore occupational performance and the participation challenges of refugee adolescents at a youth center, using the Kawa model. Design: Qualitative, phenomenological study using semistructured interviews and Kawa model-based visual activities. The thematic analysis was guided by Braun and Clarke’s framework.

Intraprofessional collaboration between occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants enhances treatment outcomes and ensures coordinated and client-centered care. Although the Intraprofessional Collaborative Practice Survey (ICPS) was developed to assess intraprofessional collaboration, psychometric validation has not been established. To evaluate the psychometric properties of the ICPS among occupational therapy students in the United States.