OT Assessments Exam 1 Flashcards
Everything people do to occupy themselves
Groups of activities and tasks of everyday life that are organized, have value and are meaningful to the individual
Occupations
Self- care: getting ready for the day (dressing, showering, eating)
Productivity: Contributing to the environment (working or volunteering)
Leisure: How a person relaxes ( socializing, reading, sports, watching TV)
Types of occupations
The ability to choose, organize and satisfactorily perform meaningful occupations
Ex: dressing oneself
Occupational performance
Any problem or issue related to meaningful and purposeful doing
Occupational Performance Issues (OPI)
The satisfactory experience of a person participating in everyday occupations
Comes from a person values, roles and interests
Optimal Occupational performance
The art and science of enabling engagement in everyday living though. occupation
Enabling people to perform the occupations that Forster health and well-being
Enabling just and inclusive society so that all people may participate to their potential in the family occupations of life
Occupational therapy
level of satisfaction brought to an individual when performing an occupation
Occupational Therapy goals
OT’s increase the potential for occupation by using these factors
Personal factors
Environmental factors
Occupational factors
Person Occupation-Environment Interaction
The set of tasks involved in finding out about a client and their occupational performance. Helps us determine OPI’s
Assessments
- What people need to do
- What people want to do
- What people are required to in every day life
What do OT’s assess
-To describe a clients status at a point in time
- To predict a clients future performance/status
- To evaluate a change in status over tome
Why do OT’s assess
- Organizing frameworks (CPPF)
- Theoretical Considerations
- Guiding principles
How do OT’s assess
Steps of the organizing framework: CPPF
1st: Enter/Initiate
2: Set the stage
3. Assess/Evaluate
Theory of client’s disability and corresponding frame of reference can guide choice of assessment
Theory of why OPI’s are happening and what we are going to focus on
Theoretical considerations
Biomechanical: body movement
Compensatory: environment
Cognitive-Behavioural: Thoughts and emotions
OT Frame of reference
COTO is an examples
They provide different stages for practicing as an OT
Guiding principles
a systematic approach to assessment
should involve a standardized assessment tool
we gain more trustworthy information when we do this
measurement
Client is actively involved in choices related to assessment, intervention and interpreting outcomes
Partnership that respects autonomy
Client-centered practice
Method used to gather information about a clients ability to perform occupations
goals are to
1. learn about the clients
2. identify the OPI’s
3. establish trust
4. gather subjective information
5. understand values, strengths and interests
Interview
we can hear the clients story and situations
we can communicate effectively to get the client to tell us their limitations
benefits on an interview
- set up an inviting space
- prepare to listen
- Minimize distractions
- Housekeeping (informed consent, time, confidentiality, note taking)
- COTO standards
Beginning on an interview
- Exploration of the client
- Gather information on OPI’s and Occupations
- Open ended questions, closed ended questions direct questions, indirect questions
- Allow for silence
Middle of an interview
- refocus if you lose track of time
- Summarize to make sure you understand what client said
- Ask if you missed anything
- Come up next appointment
- “do you have any questions for me”
End on an interview
- False reassurance
- Projecting personal values
- Giving advice
- Bombarding
- Abruptly changing the topic
- Inappropriate language
Pitfalls
- Keeps focus and helps ensure key issues are not missed
- Related assessments more explicitly to theoretical frameworks or models
- increased validity and reliability of responses
semi-structured interviews
What is COPM?
Canadian Occupational Performance Measure
An individual, evidence based, client-entered outcome measure designed to capture a clients self-perception of performance of everyday living overtime
it is not a goal setting tool, it is an OPI identification tool
Standardized assessment
COPM
semi-structured interview
visual rating scale
paper or online
How to COPM is administered?
- demonstrated evidence based practice
- demonstrates client-centred practice
- enables the identification of OPI’s
- provides a vehicle for continuity of care
- provides focus for reporting and documenting change
- may improve continuity of care
Why use the COPM?
Clinical utility
- improves goal setting
Reliability
- Moderate to high
Validity
- Content validity
COPM Psychometric properties
- identify OPI’s
- Rate and choose most important OPI’s
- Score performance and satisfaction
- Reassessment
How to administer the COPM?
How do you identify OPI’s in the COPM?
Using an interview in the first step (identifying OPI’s)
Explain 2. Rate and choose most important OPI’s
- you try to address the things they rate as most important
Explain 3. scoring in the COPM?
using the scoring card you :
1. ask the client to rate how they are currently performing on the OPI’s they names
2. Ask the client to rate how satisfied they are with their performance on the OPI’s they names
Explain 4. Reassessment
start from the beginning and get the client to rescore their performance and satisfaction
if it goes up by 2, it would be considered clinically significant
- keep an open mind
- explore less obvious occupations
- family members can be proxies
Clinical considerations to the COPM
- lack of uptake
- not acknowledging
- abrupt topic changes
- making assumptions
- failure to explore
Communication pitfalls during the COPM interview
The end result of clinical activity
What is an outcome?
An instrument that has been shown to measure desirable traits accurately
Outcome measure
Example of an outcome measure?
COPM
Use it to measure the outcome measure of clients in occupational therapy practice
Fundamental component of evidence based practice
helps us determine status at the start of an intention and if someone is actually improving
Improves clinical decision making, care and client outcomes
Why do we measure
How do we choose which assessment to use?
Instrument Evaluation Process
- Clinical Applicability
- Specificity
- Availability
- Time/Training Demands
- Acceptability to clients
- Cost
Factors to consider when determining if an assessment is clinically useful
test questions, methods and conditions for the administrating, scoring and interpretation of the results are consistent
Assessment allows for trustworthy comparison of score from one time to the next
When a test have very explicit instructions
What is a standardized assessment?
- Assessment manual
- instructions for administration
- Standardized equipement/questions
- Data on test construction, reliability, validity
- Normative data
How to tell if a test is standardized?
- description measures
- predictive measures
- evaluative measures
3 aspects of instrument purpose
describes the status of the person or group
describes the person or group occupational repertoire
information collected can be use to identify problems and to evaluate the needs/plan intervention
Descriptive measures
predicts the client future status
predicts something specific about the client
can be used to screen individuals to determine their eligibility for intervention or benefit from a program
Predictive measures
an instrument that has been shown to measure desirable traits accurately
EX: COPM: used to measure the _____ of clients in occupational therapy practice
what is outcome measure?
Fundamental component of evidence based practice
Helps us determine status at the start of intervention, if someone is actually improving, and if improved by the end of intervention
Improves clinical decision-making, care and client outcomes
Why do we measure outcomes?
How do we choose which assessment to use?
Using the instrument evaluation process
- Clinical Applicability
- Specificity
- Availability
- Time/Training demands
- Acceptability to clients
- Cost
How to determine is an assessment in clinically useful?
test questions, methods and, conditions for the administrating, scoring and, interpretation of the results is constant
Assessment allows for trustworthy comparison of scores from one time to the next
A test that has very explicit instructions
What makes an assessment standardized?
- Assessment Manual
- Instructions for administration
- Standardized equipment/questions
- Data on test construction, reliability, validity
- Normative data
How to tell if a test is standardized?
- descriptive measures
- predictive measures
- evaluative measures
3 aspects of instrument purpose
describes the status of the person or group
describes the person or groups occupational repertoire
can be used to classify am individual via comparison with norms
information collected can be used to identify problems and to evaluate the need/plan for intervention
Descriptive Measures