Relationship Between Parental Attachment and Stress Elevation and Synchrony in Pediatric Occupational Therapy Patient-Parent Dyads.

Importance: Populations already experiencing chronic stress, such as families with children who are neurologically atypical, are at particular risk for developing stress-related disease.

Objective: To establish feasibility of collecting salivary samples from pediatric occupational therapy patients and their parents in a clinical setting and at home and to examine associations among parental attachment style, parent self-reported stress, and physiological stress (i.e.

Measuring Client-Centered Outcomes in an Occupational Therapy Student Teaching Clinic Using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure.

Importance: Student teaching clinics (STCs) are an increasingly popular means of providing clinical learning opportunities to health profession students. Although research exists on the learning outcomes of students participating in STCs, little research exists on the outcomes of clients participating in STCs.

Objective: To examine client-perceived outcomes at a university-based occupational therapy STC in the Pacific Northwest.

Effectiveness of a Handwriting Intervention With At-Risk Kindergarteners.

Objective: We examined the effectiveness of an occupational therapist-led handwriting intervention for special education and at-risk kindergarteners.

Method: We incorporated a two-group, pretest-posttest design. Both groups consisted of kindergarteners receiving individualized education program (IEP) or Response to Intervention (RtI) support.

Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI): An Effective Outcome Measure for Handwriting Interventions for Kindergarten, First-Grade, and Second-Grade Students?

We determined whether a widely used assessment of visual-motor skills, the Beery-Buktenica Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI), is appropriate for use as an outcome measure for handwriting interventions. A two-group pretest-posttest design was used with 207 kindergarten, first-grade, and second-grade students. Two well-established handwriting measures and the VMI were administered pre- and postintervention.

Measurement qualities of a self-report and therapist-scored functional capacity instrument based on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles.

Studies provide convincing arguments to support the development of functional capacity instruments based on the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The purpose of this study is to investigate the item-level measurement qualities of a newly developed DOT-based functional capacity instrument for clients undergoing rehabilitation treatment for back pain. Client and therapist ratings were collected on 124 clients from 27 rehabilitation sites using the newly developed Occupational Rehabilitation Data Base (ORDB) functional capacity instrument.