Occupational Therapy Projects
The focus is on projects that enable people with limited capacity to be more independent and participate in self-care, education, work, leisure activities, and social life.
Project Database
All Occupational Therapy Research Unit research projects are listed in chronological order by project start date. Specific research projects can also be found by using the search function.
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Mobility needs of clients with impairment using transport services
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Dementia associated apathy
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 ...
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Leadership of Occupational Therapy Group Therapy
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Quantified self - halfway between lifestyle and medicine
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 ...
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ENOTHE - Occupational Therapy Interest Group for Displaced Persons
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 ...
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The Role-Checklist QP:V2 as a measure of participation according to the ICF
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 ...
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Powered mobility training in young children with cerebral palsy
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 ...
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iCareCooperatives
The iCareCoops project tackles the increasing demand for elderly care at a time of limited resources. Eight partners from seven European countries aimed to create novel ICT-driven solutions to empower care givers and older people in need of care to extend the time they can live in their preferred environment by ...
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Measuring Functional Performance: The translation and adaptation of the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory - Computer Adaptive Test (PEDI-CAT) for it’s use in German speaking countries
Background: The Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) is a useful clinical and research assessment to measure functional performance in children but has limitations in content and age range. Therefore the PEDI-CAT, a computer adaptive testing version, has recently been developed. The addition of new ...
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"bliib gsund": a occupational therapy based health promotion program for persons 60+
The healthpromotion programm "bliib gsund" was conducted in a new center for prevention in Linthal (canton Glarus), where practitioners, psychologists, physical and occupational therapists and a fitness instructor are envolved. Abroad, the program was already conducted successfully (like USA, Great Britain, the ...
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Evaluation of a dynamic seat for wheelchair
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WeTakeCare
WeTakeCare project aims to empower the collaborative caring and training between an elderly person and their non-professional care-giver, in order to promote independent living of the older person. Hence, the autonomous performance of Activities of the Daily Living (ADL) by the elderly person will be encouraged ...
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Telecare Technology for an Ageing Society in Europe
Background:Ageing societies in western countries lead to more people with chronic health conditions and in need of care. Recent developments in technology have led to more devices supporting elderly people. They provide health care and enable elderly people to maintain their autonomy and allow them to live ...
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Cognitive and Physical Ergonomics of Translation
Like many other knowledge workers, professional translators spend much of their day making decisions at a computer: reading texts in one language, searching for background information in many languages, referring to terminology databanks to ensure consistency and appropriacy of lexical choices, checking parallel ...
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Robotics and autonomous devices in social and health care
Background : Demographic developments, shortage of skilled personnel and growing economic pressure in the health sector lead to an increased focus on technical solutions in the field of medical care and treatment of people. So far, robots are mainly technology-driven and still in the development and testing phase. ...
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ADL (Activities of Daily Living) performance in children with mild disabilities: The Use of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills in Evaluation and Intervention
Introduction Occupational therapists are concerned with enabling people to perform the daily life tasks they need, want, or are expected to perform for fullest possible integration into community living and participation in society. Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD), disorders of attention ...