Co-constructing engagement in pediatric rehabilitation: a multiple case study approach.

Purpose: To explore engagement principles and contextual conditions in high-engagement therapy sessions involving youth with disabilities and service providers.

Method: From a larger project on therapy engagement, a dyadic case analysis was conducted involving three youth ages 8-15 with disabilities and their service providers. Participants were interviewed about their engagement experiences after high-engagement sessions focusing on speech articulation, transition goals, and physical mobility.

Strategies occupational therapists use to engage children and parents in therapy sessions.

Unlabelled: Occupational therapists implicitly rely on tacit knowledge to inform the strategies they use to engage children and parents in a therapy session.

Objective: To identify strategies occupational therapists use in a therapy session to engage children and parents.

Methods: A qualitative approach was employed using interpretive description methodology.

The Engaged Child in Occupational Therapy.

Background.: Achieving optimal outcomes for children in occupational therapy settings is influenced, in part, by their engagement. The nature of child engagement from the occupational therapy perspective remains relatively unexplored.

The Nature, Value, and Experience of Engagement in Pediatric Rehabilitation: Perspectives of Youth, Caregivers, and Service Providers.

: To conduct a qualitative investigation of engagement in pediatric rehabilitation therapy.: Interviews were conducted with 10 youth, 10 caregivers, and 10 service providers. Transcripts were analyzed thematically using an inductive approach.

Parent engagement and disengagement in paediatric settings: an occupational therapy perspective.

This study aimed to understand parent engagement and disengagement in the delivery of occupational therapy to their children. This study used a qualitative interpretive description methodology. Focus groups and individual interviews were employed.

Measures of Parent Engagement for Children Receiving Developmental or Rehabilitation Interventions: A Systematic Review.

Aim: To examine the conceptual and clinometric properties of measures for parent engagement in developmental or rehabilitation interventions for children and youth (<18 years of age).

Methods: Four electronic databases were searched. Studies were included if they reported measures of at least one domain of parent engagement (i.

Association between physical activity and sleep in adults with chronic pain: a momentary, within-person perspective.

Background: Individuals with chronic pain consider improved sleep to be one of the most important outcomes of treatment. Physical activity has been shown to have beneficial effects on sleep in the general population. Despite these findings, the physical activity-sleep relationship has not been directly examined in a sample of people with chronic pain.