Week 1 Flashcards
Why study health conditions?
- Understanding and knowing about a persons health condition can help in the information gathering stage of OT
- Informs the decisions you make
- Provides the therapist with the foundation for their interventions
- Underpins professional reasoning and intervention choices
What are the top 10 global causes of death in order?
- Ischaemic heart disease
- Stroke
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Lower respiratory infections
- Neonatal disease
- Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers
- Alzheimers disease and other dementias
- Diarrhoeal diseases
- Diabetes mellitus
- Kidney disease
Australia females top 5 causes of death?
- Dementia including alzherimers disease
- Coronary heart disease
- cerebrovascular disease
- Lung cancer
- Breast cancer
Australia males top 5 causes of death?
- Coronary heart disease
- dementia including alzheimers disease
- Lung cancer
- Cerebrovascular disease
- prostate cancer
Disability
A physical or mental condition that makes it more difficult for a person to execute specific activities and experience and be involved in life situations
Aetiology
The cause or origin of a disease
Risk factors
Attributes, characteristics or exposures that increase the likelihood of a person developing a disease or a disorder – e.g. sun exposure, smoking, poor diet.
Prevalence
Number of people in a population who have a disease or health condition at one point in time
Incidence
The number of people in a population who develop a disease or health condition over a period of time (new cases)
Course
The progression of the condition – is it. Likely to improve or worsen
Prognosis
The likely outcome or course of the health condition
Comorbidities
The simultaneous presence of 2 or more health conditions
5 steps of EBP process
- Ask
- Aquire
- Appraise
- Apply
- Evaluation of performance
STEP 1 - ASK
Translate uncertainty into an answerable question
PICO framework
A specialised framework used to form the question and facilitate their literature search
- helps to get a clear and defined clinical question
What does PICO stand for?
Population
Issue/interest
Comparison
Outcome
COPD
Chronic obstructive respiratory disease
- A group of lower respiatory diseases characterised by chronic obstruction of long airflow that interferes with normal breathing
- The gradual loss of your ability to breath affectively
Most common types of COPD
- Emphysema and chronic bronchitis
How many people have COPD?
638000
Stats on COPD
- 5th top disease causing burden
Burden of disease
Measures the impact of diseases and injuries on a population. It is the number of years of healthy life lost due to living with ill health with the years of life lost due too dying prematurely
Role of OT for pts with COPD
ADL evaluation and training to increase functional endurance
Education and training in appropriate breathing techniques during ADL performance
Education in principles of energy conservation and work simplification
Evaluation and prescription of assistive technology
Education in stress management and relaxation techniques
Occupational performance issue
An actual or potential problem in a person’s ability to choose, organize and satisfactorily perform meaningful occupations.
What is the ICF?
Framework for describing and organizing information on functioning and disability.
It provides a standard language and a conceptual basis for the definition and measurement of health and disability.
Strengths of ICF
Provides a shared vision
Includes the environment
International classification system
Weaknesses of ICF
Classifies people against what is normal
It is not an assessment – Only a conceptual framework
Confusion between activities and participation
No classification system for personal factors
