Hand injuries account for a significant number of injury-related treatments in the emergency room and cause high costs through medical care (medical treatment and therapy) and absenteeism. Since the recovery of hand function has an influence on the quality of life, and the duration of illness and incapacity to work ...

The Young Children Participation Environment Measure (YC-PEM) is a proxy assessment that describes the participation of young children and environmental features in activities at home, in daycare and preschool and in the community. With the YC-PEM, parents and professionals can learn more about the current ...

Background The shortage of skilled workers in the health professions is also present in occupational therapy. In order to determine the need for occupational therapists in the various regions and fields of practice in Switzerland, to plan study places and to make political decisions, empirical data on the number and ...

Introduction The Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth (PEM-CY) (Coster et al., 2011) is a standardized parent-reported assessment to determine the extent and participation pattern of children and youth between 5 and 17 years, their levels of participation involvement, related environmental ...

The lack of overt behaviour in individuals exhibiting dementia-associated apathy is not only stressful to family members and caregivers, it is also a major challenge for medical and nursing staff. Knowing whether apathy arises from an impaired function of the neural network of affect due to neurodegenerative ...

Starting position Inexpensive sensors in portable devices and an increasing number of applications (apps) for lifestyle, wellness and health tracking allow users to record their physical activity and behaviour. This self-tracking has become known as Quantified Self (QS) and provides a wealth of data (big data) that ...

The European interest group "Occupational Therapy for Displaced Persons" networks all interested occupational therapists from education, research and practice. In the first step, a situation analysis of occupational therapy in refugee aid in the European area was carried out. Occupational therapy is positioned ...

Backgroud: The Role Checklist V2:QP is an assessment for Occupational Therapists to assess participation, satisfaction with role performance, and role desirability for ten common roles of their clients. It is based on the original Role Checklist (Oakley et al., 1986). The Role Checklist V2:QP is theoretically based ...

Background Children with disability (e.g., cerebral palsy) have problems in body functions and structures which often impact their mobility and participation in different areas of life (e.g., school). Earlier studies showed that enabling mobility of children with disability due to powered mobility facilitate their ...