Assessing the use of a portable time-geographic diary for detecting patterns of daily occupations.

Background: A time-geographic diary approach is of interest in occupational therapy due to the inclusion of the diarist's subjective experiences. There are several methods for detecting doing in time, but details needed for analysis are still lacking. The smartphone application POrtable Diary Data collector (PODD), a 24-hr diary based on the time-geographic diary has recently been introduced.

Mind the gap. How job task distributions of health professional developers constitute evidence-based practice.

Background: Development of clinical practice at a Danish neurorehabilitation centre was delegated to a group of health professional developers. Their job function lacked conceptual foundation, and it was unclear how their working tasks contributed to evidence-based practice.

Objective: Conceptual clarification of the job function and pattern analysis of activity distributions for health professional developers.

Changes in participation patterns of youth with physical disabilities following the Pathways and Resources for Engagement and Participation intervention: A time-geography approach.

: The PREP (Pathways and Resources for Engagement and Participation), an innovative 12-week occupational therapy intervention that focuses on changing the environment, was found effective in improving the participation of youth in specific chosen community-based activities.: To complement existing evidence, this study explored changes in overall participation patterns of youth with physical disabilities following the PREP intervention.: Guided by time-geography approach, 13 youth aged 12-17 completed a 24-hr diary using the Aday app during one typical weekday and another day during the weekend, pre- and post-intervention.

Occupational therapists' job satisfaction in a changing hospital organisation--a time-geography-based study.

Objective: To investigate occupational therapists' job satisfaction under a changing regime by using a time-geographic approach focusing on the therapists' everyday working lives.

Participants: Nine occupational therapists at the Copenhagen University Hospital, Gentofte, Denmark.

Method: A mixed-method design was employed.