Scholarship Flashcards
What does research lead to?
- leadership
- strong ethics/ awareness of legalities
- business considerations
- credentialing and life long learning
Ethical Perspective of EBP
- beneficence= provide best care. Need to discern reliable studies from those that are less sound
- professional development= advanced practitioner distinction=life long learning
Legal Perspective of EBP
-if practitioner must justify Tx best to have used as well researched technique
Ex. If pt falls during Tx, you have EBP to protect you
Financial perspective of EBP
- reimbursement (insurance)
- practices supported by research
- current practice
Scholarship of Discovery
Conducting original scientific research
-contributes to the knowledge base of OT
Scholarship of integration
Seeking out new insights from existing original research, both within OT and across disciplines, by integrating, interpreting, and synthesizing in a search for new patterns of connection
-contributes to the formation of new perspectives and theories in OT
Scholarship of application
Linking theory and practice/ linking academia and service provision
-use of knowledge and insights gained from scholarship of discovery/integration to address societal problems, OT assessments or interventions, or classroom teaching of client’s or OT practitioners in a practical way
Scholarship of teaching and learning
Systematic study based on recognition of complementary mature of teaching and learning
-contributes to high quality teaching of OT students and public sharing o knowledge of the profession
What can the OTA do with research studies?
- read research publication
- understand implication for practice
- participate in data collection
- notice trends in interventions
- raise questions
Data
- info gathered
- analyzed to support/refute hypothesis/theory
Independent Variable
- influences study’s outcome
- attribute IV: pre-existing characteristic (Ex. gender)
- active IV: given to participants and is applied (Ex. Intervention)
Control Group
Group of participants that don’t receive or have the independent variable
Dependent variable
Outcome or change that is expected as a result of the independent variable
Extraneous/confounding variable hypothesis
- variable that is not considered in the study, but has potential influence in the outcome
- statement supported by educated deduction and reliable info; predicts a relationship between variables or outcome of investigation
Internal validity
Dependent variable is a result of the independent variable