Quality indicators for occupational therapy: a scoping review.

Background: Occupational therapists are increasingly asked to demonstrate the effectiveness, appropriateness, and efficiency of their interventions to funding bodies. However, the extent to which this is practiced and the health policy context within which such a practice is situated differs internationally. The aim of this scoping review was to establish which quality indicators are used internationally for this purpose.

Change over time in functional capacity and self-perceived health status for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a registry-based longitudinal study.

Background And Aims: Chronic musculoskeletal pain is a major public health problem worldwide. Both self-reported functional capacity and self-perceived health status are reduced in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Previous studies mostly assessed functional capacity through self-reported questionnaires instead of objective measurements.

Associations between social integration, participation and productivity loss among persons with chronic pain: a registry based cross sectional study.

Purpose: To examine associations between factors of social inclusion and participation and productivity loss in employed persons with chronic pain, assessed for an interprofessional pain rehabilitation programme. We hypothesized that factors of social inclusion and participation and work related social factors are significantly associated with productivity when experiencing chronic pain and we expected a moderate effect.

Methods: Cross-sectional study using data collected prospectively in an interprofessional patient registry for chronic pain.

[Multiprofessional treatment approach in chronic back pain].

International guidelines recommend involving various professions and disciplines at an early stage in the event of chronic back pain. In connection with this, terms such as multiprofessional or interprofessional interventions are often mentioned without a uniform idea of what they mean. This article is intended to provide an overview of multiprofessional interventions for patients with chronic back pain and the integration into a meaningful interdisciplinary and interprofessional multimodal treatment concept.

"The experiences and needs of persons with disabilities in using paratransit services".

Background: Persons with disabilities do not yet experience equality with the rest of the population when using transportation. Paratransit services take over transportation for persons with disabilities when public transportation cannot be used or can only be used to a limited extent. The usefulness of these services remains limited due to financial and structural reasons.

The role of contextual factors on participation in the life area of work and employment after rehabilitation: A qualitative study on the views of persons with chronic pain.

Background: A deeper understanding of how contextual factors affect the ability to participate in the life area of work and employment despite chronic musculoskeletal pain is needed as a basis for interprofessional rehabilitation programs.

Objective: To investigate which contextual factors influence rehabilitation program clients' ability to participate in the life area of work and employment, and how they do this.

Methods: Nested case study using a realist evaluation framework of interprofessional interventions.

Midwives' perception of advantages of health care at a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland.

Objective: To explore midwives' perceptions of the advantages of telemedicine during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland.

Design: Cross-sectional study based on an online survey using quantitative methods.

Setting: Midwives working in Switzerland.

Does therapy always need touch? A cross-sectional study among Switzerland-based occupational therapists and midwives regarding their experience with health care at a distance during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic impedes therapy and care activities. Tele-health, i.e.

Relationship between the perceived burden of suffering and the observed quality of ADL task performance before and after a 12-week pain management programme.

Background/objective: Constant pain causes suffering and affects performance of activities of daily living (ADL). In clients with chronic musculoskeletal pain, we wanted to determine (i) the relationship between the perceived burden of suffering (measured with the Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM)) and the observed quality of ADL task performance (measured with the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS)); and (ii) the change in these assessments before and after a 12-week pain programme.

Methods: In this cross-sectional cohort study, we retrospectively collected data from participants in a Swiss pain management programme.

Are the school version of the assessment of motor and process skills measures valid for German-speaking children?

Background: There are no validated assessment tools for evaluating quality of schoolwork task performance of children living in German-speaking Europe (GSE).

Objective: To determine whether the international age-normative means of the School Version of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (School AMPS) are valid for use in GSE.

Methods: The participants were 159 typically-developing children, 3-12 years, from GSE.

Effectiveness of the Bern Ambulatory Interprofessional Rehabilitation (BAI-Reha) programme for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: a cohort study.

Questions Under Study: Chronic pain has a high impact on individuals and society. (Cost-)effective interventions are desperately needed. We evaluated short- and long-term effects of the Bern Ambulatory Interprofessional Rehabilitation (BAI-Reha) for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Feasibility study of a single-blind randomised controlled trial of an occupational therapy intervention.

Background: Several factors facilitate or hinder efficacy research in occupational therapy. Strategies are needed, therefore, to support the successful implementation of trials.

Aim: To assess the feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Detecting differences in activities of daily living between children with and without mild disabilities.

Objective: We evaluated whether the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) measures are valid for detecting differences in activities of daily living (ADL) ability among children with and without mild disabilities.

Method: Retrospective data from the AMPS database were analyzed using many-facet Rasch analyses and forced regression analyses to evaluate for significant group differences.

Results: Regression analyses of data for 10,998 children ages 4-15 who met the inclusion criteria revealed significant Age × Group interaction effects (B ≥ 0.

Cross-regional validity of the assessment of motor and process skills for use in middle Europe.

Objective: To evaluate cross-regional validity of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) with a specific focus on valid use with Middle Europeans.

Design: Descriptive cross-regional validation study.

Participants: A total of 1346 participants from Middle Europe and 144,143 participants from North America, UK/Ireland, the Nordic Countries, other Europe, Australia/New Zealand and Asia, between the ages of 3 and 103 years, in good health and with a variety of diagnoses, were selected from the AMPS database.