Assessment of Awareness of Disability measures among persons with acquired brain injury.

Background: Limited self-awareness of disabilities can compromise individuals' occupational performance.

Purpose: The Assessment of Awareness of Disability (AAD) provides occupational therapists with a standardized methodology for measuring clients'self-awareness when performing activities of daily living (ADL). This is the first study that formally examines the stability of the AAD measures.

ADL skill profiles across three psychiatric diagnoses.

Background: Occupational therapists' ability to develop diagnostic-specific ADL intervention strategies is facilitated by an understanding of the ADL abilities of diagnostic groups.

Aim: To determine whether there are significant differences in ADL ability and ADL skill profiles between samples of persons with bipolar disorder depression (n=158), bipolar disorder mania (n=200), and schizophrenia (n=200). Methods.

Occupational well-being: rethinking occupational therapy outcomes.

Background: Outcomes in occupational therapy focus largely on increasing and enhancing the quality of clients' occupational performance, and thus, the importance of clients'subjective experiences of their occupations are often overshadowed.

Purpose: In this paper, the concept of occupational well-being is introduced. Our intent is to extend the focus beyond occupational performance and draw attention to individuals' subjective occupational experiences.

Relation between post-stroke satisfaction with time use, perceived social support and depressive symptoms.

Purpose: To determine if perceived level of social support and number of depressive symptoms differentiates those who are satisfied with their time use post-stroke from those who are dissatisfied.

Method: Secondary analysis of data of 54 subjects grouped by yes/no responses to 'Are you satisfied with how you spend your time?' Perceived social support and number of depressive symptoms were evaluated using the MOS Social Support Scale and Geriatric Depression Scale respectively.

Results: Time use satisfaction was high (64.

Discharge planning with older adults: toward a negotiated model of decision making.

Background: Occupational therapists are frequently involved in discharge accommodation decision making with older adults.

Purpose: The literature regarding this process is reviewed. The ways in which risk avoidance and autonomy promotion philosophies influence decisions are examined and a new approach is proposed.

Construction and validation of a fatigue impact scale for daily administration (D-FIS).

The fatigue impact scale (FIS) was developed previously as a symptom-specific profile measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for use in medical conditions in which fatigue is a prominent chronic symptom. Thus, it was not developed to be a responsive measure of daily changes in fatigue. This study describes the development and initial validation of an adaptation of the FIS for daily use.