A Prospective Observational Study of Frailty in Geriatric Revitalization Aimed at Community-Dwelling Elderly.

(1) The increasing life expectancy brings an increase in geriatric syndromes, specifically frailty. The literature shows that exercise is a key to preventing, or even reversing, frailty in community-dwelling populations. The main objective is to demonstrate how an intervention based on multicomponent exercise produces an improvement in frailty and pre-frailty in a community-dwelling population.

Life Domains and Lifestyle of Older Adults Living in a Nursing Home: A Pilot Study.

Although the preventive occupational therapy intervention program Lifestyle Redesign has proven to be effective in maintaining and improving the health and quality of life of older adults, a similar program has not yet been culturally adapted to the Spanish population. As a preliminary step in developing a lifestyle intervention tailored to healthy Spanish older adults living in a nursing home (Lifestyle Choice; originally in Spanish "Elección de Estilo de Vida"), we aimed to identify and describe the life domains of this population and determine overlap with content areas addressed in the Lifestyle Redesign program. An observational cross-sectional study was carried out using quantitative methods, including 30 healthy older adult residents in the "Virgen del Prado" nursing home in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), based on the development of a questionnaire and a survey.

Constraint-induced movement therapy versus bimanual intensive therapy in children with hemiplegia showing low/very low bimanual functional performance: A randomized clinical trial.

Introduction: Children with infantile hemiplegia with low or very low bimanual functional performance have great impediments to spontaneously use their affected upper limb, which affects their performance of day-to-day activities and their quality of life.

Objective: To determine whether the order of application and the dose of modified constraint-induced movement therapy within a combined (hybrid) protocol influences the results of bimanual functional performance of the affected upper limb and the quality of life of children with congenital hemiplegia (5 to 8 years old) with low/very low bimanual functional performance.

Design: Single-blinded randomized controlled trial.

Psychosocial Interventions for the Treatment of Cancer-Related Fatigue: An Umbrella Review.

Unlabelled: Cancer-related fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of cancer and one of those referred by patients as the most disabling. However, we still do not have enough evidence to allow us to recommend effective and personalized approaches.

Goal: To provide evidence on the efficacy of ASCO-recommended psychosocial interventions for reducing cancer-related fatigue.

Quo Vadis, Amadeo Hand Robot? A Randomized Study with a Hand Recovery Predictive Model in Subacute Stroke.

Background: Early identification of hand-prognosis-factors at patient's admission could help to select optimal synergistic rehabilitation programs based on conventional (COHT) or robot-assisted (RAT) therapies.

Methods: In this bi-phase cross-over prospective study, 58 stroke patients were enrolled in two randomized groups. Both groups received same treatments A + B (A = 36 COHT sessions for 10 weeks; B = 36 RAT sessions for 10 weeks; 45 min/session; 3 to 5 times per week).

Occupational Therapy Interventions for the Improvement of the Quality of Life of Healthy Older Adults Living in Nursing Homes: A Systematic Review.

Objective: To evaluate current scientific evidence on the effectiveness of occupational therapy interventions for the improvement of the quality of life of healthy adults over 65 years old living in nursing homes.

Data Source: PubMed, Web of Science, Dialnet, Scopus, Cochrane, Cinahl and SciELO databases searched between 2012 and 2022.

Study Inclusion And Exclusion Criteria: a) Studies involving occupational therapy interventions in residential settings (nursing homes or community residential settings), b) Studies conducted on a population of healthy adults over 65 years old, c) Studies with a level of evidence 1a-1b to 3a-3b, d) Studies containing the MeSH descriptors in the keyword list.

Validation of the Spanish Versions of FACIT-PAL and FACIT-PAL-14 in Palliative Patients.

Palliative patients require several types of care to improve their quality of life as much as possible, and valid and reliable assessment instruments are essential. The objective of this study is the Spanish validation of the Functional Assessment Chronic Illness Therapy-Palliative Care (FACIT-PAL) and its abbreviated version, FACIT-PAL-14, in palliative care patients. FACIT-PAL and FACIT-PAL-14 were translated into Spanish and administered to 131 terminal oncology patients in home palliative care units, hospital palliative care units, health center teams, and social health centers.

A Q-method approach to perceptions of professional reasoning in occupational therapy undergraduates.

Background: Professional reasoning provides a firm basis for the development of teaching and assessment strategies to support the acquisition of skills by healthcare students. Nevertheless, occupational therapy educators should use diverse methods of learning assessment to examine student learning outcomes more fully with an evaluation that supports the overall complexity of the process, particularly learners' subjective experience. The aim of this article is to identify the range of perspectives among occupational therapy undergraduates regarding terms or concepts that are key for improving their professional reasoning.

Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review.

Background/aim: Professional reasoning in occupational therapy is the process used by practitioners to plan, direct, perform, and reflect on client care. The professional's ability to manage the process of the intervention is structured around it, thereby influencing the effectiveness of the work carried out. The objectives of this research were to identify and describe (a) the historical development of this area of research from 1982 to 2017 and (b) the nature and volume of the scientific literature on professional reasoning in occupational therapy and the evidence that exists today.

Reliability and Validity of the Spanish Version of the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale in Oncology Patients.

Context: Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) is a multidimensional tool developed to evaluate frequency, severity, and distress of common symptoms present in cancer patients.

Objective: To translate the original English version of MSAS and prove the reliability and validity of the Spanish version.

Methods: MSAS scale was translated into Spanish and administered to 246 cancer patients aged between 18 and 85 years.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients' experience with pulmonary rehabilitation: a systematic review of qualitative research.

The aim of this study was to give an in-depth consideration of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients' subjective view of the impact of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) on their lives. A systematic review in PubMed, Embase, CINAHL and PsychInfo databases yielded 3306 articles, of which 387 were duplicates, 263 remained after screening abstract and title; of them, 4 were excluded (editorial or due to lacking of full text) remaining a total of 259 for full text reading. Among these, eight studies met the inclusion criteria and were finally included.