On-road driving remediation following acquired brain injury: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between on-road driving remediation and achieving fitness to drive following acquired brain injury.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Tertiary hospital outpatient driver assessment and rehabilitation service, Australia.

Seeking residents' views regarding Australian residential aged care: A scoping review.

Objective: This scoping review aimed to explore topics on which the views of residents of Australian residential aged care facilities (RACFs) have been sought.

Methods: Scoping review methodology as outlined by Arksey and O'Malley was used to identify, explore and report on the range of literature regarding views of RACF residents. Seven electronic databases were searched using broad search terms relevant to the RACF context.

Lifespace and occupational participation following acquired brain injury during driving disruption: a mixed methods study.

Purpose: To examine the lifespace of participants referred for occupational therapy driving assessment following acquired brain injury, to understand how, why, where and with whom access and participation in community-based occupations is occurring during the period of driving disruption.

Materials And Methods: The mixed methods, convergent research design utilised a travel diary and Lifespace Mobility Assessment-Composite quantitative elements and semi-structured interviews analysed qualitatively with an interpretive description lens.

Results: Forty-eight participants (56.

Learning and development needs for successful staff and consumer partnerships on healthcare quality improvement committees: a co-produced cross-sectional online survey.

Objectives This study aimed to conduct a learning and development needs analysis of quality improvement partnership capabilities of staff and consumers on partnership committees at an Australian metropolitan hospital and health service. Objectives were to compare consumer and staff self-rated capability importance, performance, and learning needs; to investigate if years of partnership experience influenced ratings; and to ascertain staff and consumer preferred learning strategies. Methods An online cross-sectional survey was adapted from the Hennessy-Hicks Training Needs Analysis questionnaire.

Occupation-centred practice and supervision: Exploring senior occupational therapists' perspectives.

Introduction: Occupation-centred practice is core to contemporary occupational therapy; however, knowledge and implementation of occupation in practice vary. New graduate occupational therapists find implementing occupation-centred practice challenging, partly due to the influence of senior occupational therapists. However, little is known about senior therapists' views, knowledge, and use of occupation-centred practice and the impact this has on new graduates.

'Learning and growing together': exploring consumer partnerships in a PhD, an ethnographic study.

Background: Consumer and community involvement (CCI) in health research is increasingly recognised as best practice and is closely linked with calls for epistemic justice and more transparent university collaborations with consumers. Given doctoral candidates play a key role in the future of co-production, examination of consumer partnerships in PhDs is important. This study aimed to describe and evaluate consumer partnerships in a PhD from the perspective of the consumer co-researchers, the PhD candidate, and the academic supervisors including optimal approaches, impacts, and benefits and challenges.

Different in so many ways: Exploring consumer, health service staff, and academic partnerships in a research advisory group through rapid ethnography.

Introduction: Consumer and community involvement (CCI) encompasses the range of consumer engagement activities across the research cycle. Research advisory groups (RAGs) are a common method of CCI that may empower the consumer voice in research. However, there is limited evaluation of RAGs to guide occupational therapists considering this as a CCI strategy in research.

Occupational therapy in Australian residential aged care facilities: A systematic mapping review.

Introduction: Australia's population is ageing, resulting in more older adults living in residential aged care facilities. Occupational therapy scope of practice in Australian residential aged care facilities is significantly influenced by the government funding instrument. As the current government funding instrument is administratively inefficient, insufficiently discriminates between residents' care needs and provides perverse incentives, a new funding model is set to be implemented.

Refining a capability development framework for building successful consumer and staff partnerships in healthcare quality improvement: A coproduced eDelphi study.

Background: The capability of consumers and staff may be critical for authentic and effective partnerships in healthcare quality improvement (QI). Capability frameworks describe core knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and behaviours and guide learning and development at individual and organizational levels.

Objective: To refine a capability framework for successful partnerships in healthcare QI which was coproduced from a scoping review.

Understanding occupational therapy practice in residential aged care facilities under the Aged Care Funding Instrument: A qualitative study.

Introduction: Australian occupational therapy practice in residential aged care facilities has been largely funded using the Aged Care Funding Instrument since March 2008. Literature indicates that the funding model constrains occupational therapy practice, impacting on therapists' and residents' experiences. In preparation for the implementation of the new funding model, the Australian National Aged Care Classification, it is timely to understand current practice.

"Extremely Painful, but Worth It": The Lived Experience of Receiving Collagenase as Treatment for Dupuytren Disease.

Background: Collagenase injection is a relatively new, minimally invasive treatment option for Dupuytren disease. Most literature focusses on quantitative outcome measures, such as degree of residual contracture and recurrence. The patient experience of the treatment has rarely been explored.

On-road driving remediation following acquired brain injury: a scoping review.

Background: Return to independent driving is an important goal following acquired brain injury which may be explored through driving rehabilitation. Whilst on-road driving remediation often form the basis for rehabilitation, the efficacy of such intervention is uncertain.

Aims: To describe current evidence regarding the use of on-road driving remediation to facilitate return to independent driving following acquired brain injury and define gaps in research.

Understanding professional identity in occupational therapy: A scoping review.

Introduction: A strong professional identity helps occupational therapists maintain professional values and thrive when facing work-related challenges and opportunities including generic, blurred or emerging roles, funding pressures and a push for outcome evidence. A scoping review will build understanding of professional identity and how to maintain it in such circumstances.

Objectives: To scope what is currently understood of professional identity in occupational therapy and factors which influence ability to maintain this and adapt in challenging work environments.

Identifying the characteristics of occupation-centred practice: A Delphi study.

Introduction: Occupation-centred practice is key to aligning with the contemporary paradigm. Benefits of this approach for clients and the profession are well documented, yet how to identify occupation-centred practice is not yet understood. Therefore, this study aimed to uncover the characteristics of occupation-centred practice and how they can be identified in practice.

Describing the occupational nature of practice: A scoping review.

Background: Describing how occupation is used in practice can be challenging for occupational therapists. Occupation-centred, occupation-based, and occupation-focussed terminology are frequently used interchangeably and ambiguously to describe practice. However, ambiguous language creates confusion and inadequately demonstrates the value of occupation.

Co-produced capability framework for successful patient and staff partnerships in healthcare quality improvement: results of a scoping review.

Background: Internationally, patient and public involvement (PPI) is core policy for health service quality improvement (QI). However, authentic QI partnerships are not commonplace. A lack of patient and staff capability to deliver successful partnerships may be a barrier to meaningful QI collaboration.

Consumer engagement in occupational therapy health-related research: A scoping review of the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal and a call to action.

Introduction: Consumer engagement in research is becoming an ethical, political, and moral imperative. The aim of this scoping review was to provide a snapshot of the current status of the emerging area of consumer engagement in occupational therapy health-related research, as published in the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal.

Methods: A scoping review was conducted of all health-related original research published in the Australian Occupational Therapy Journal for 5½ years, plus Early View, as at June 2019.

Contemporary occupational therapy philosophy and practice in hospital settings.

Background: Occupational therapists have sought to reconnect with the foundations of the profession for many years, and a key focus has been the place of occupation in practice. Existing literature suggests that therapists working in acute settings experience difficulties practicing in ways that centralise occupation.

Aim/objective: This scoping review aimed to explore the existing literature on contemporary occupational therapy philosophy and practice in acute hospital settings.

Occupational therapy entry-level education scholarship in Australia from 2000 to 2019: A systematic mapping review.

Introduction: The number of occupational therapy degree programs in Australia has increased substantially over the last decade. During this time, Australian academics have produced a significant amount of scholarship focussed on entry-level education; however, the landscape of this scholarship has not been examined. The aim of this study was to review the literature on the scholarship of entry-level Australian occupational therapy education programs, specifically the topics explored and methods employed.

Listening to the client voice - A constructivist grounded theory study of the experiences of client-centred practice after stroke.

Introduction: Collaboration, choice and power-sharing are cornerstones of practice as occupational therapists support individuals to re-establish an occupational identity and reintegrate into the community following stroke. Yet evidence of unmet client needs suggests client-centred care is not optimal, and little is known of client perspectives of client-centred practice. A deeper understanding of the client experience of therapeutic relationships during adjustment following stroke, will help facilitate client-centred practice.

Occupational adaptation - analyzing the maturity and understanding of the concept through concept analysis.

Occupational adaptation is a key occupational therapy concept, yet lacks clarity and consensus, impacting on its application in practice, theory and research. Concept analysis is a rigorous methodology which enables identification of unique features, gaps in knowledge, and the need for further concept refinement. This study aimed to determine the conceptual maturity of occupational adaptation, and identify steps needed to understand and use occupational adaptation.

Transcending the individual: The promise and potential of collectivist approaches in occupational therapy.

Background: In a globalised world, with injustices and inequities, occupational therapists have a moral and ethical obligation to use their knowledge and skills to work at a collective level with groups, communities, and populations rather than focus solely on individualistic approaches.

Objectives: To review the literature exploring the question: What do occupational therapists do in their everyday practice that could be characterised as having a collectivist orientation?

Method: A scoping review with searches on Web of Science, Scopus and CINAHL databases with the keywords 'occupational therapy' AND collectiv*.

Results: 161 articles were found and after screening of abstracts and/or full text, 19 were included.

Professional identity measures for student health professionals - a systematic review of psychometric properties.

Background: Professional identity is critical to the safe and effective clinical practice of all health professions. University programs play an important role in the formation of professional identity of students, and so it essential to understand professional identity at this stage of students' development. However, the majority of research into professional identity has been conducted using the qualitative paradigm so further quantitative analysis through the use of psychometrically-sound professional identity measures is required.

Stroke survivors' experiences of occupation in hospital-based stroke rehabilitation: a qualitative exploration.

Studies highlighting the time spent in self-isolating and inactive activities during stroke rehabilitation have led to the introduction of group programs and environmental enrichment to improve activity levels. A less explored perspective is to understand how the introduced changes align with the occupational needs of the stroke survivors. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore stroke survivors experiences of engagement in occupations during stroke rehabilitation.

Primary Contact Occupational Therapy Hand Clinics: The pull of an occupational perspective.

Background/aim: Primary contact models of care are an emerging area of occupational therapy practice that aim to respond to the changing health-care landscape. There is a dearth of literature exploring an occupational perspective in primary contact roles, and literature in the broader scope of hand therapy has recognised that occupational therapists' practice often aligns with the biomedical worldview. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the practice of occupational therapists within Primary Contact Occupational Therapy Hand (PCOTH) Clinics from an occupational perspective.