Principal Approaches to Understanding Occupation and Occupational Science Found in the Chilean Journal of Occupational Therapy (2001-2012).
Rodolfo Morrison, Silvia Gómez, Enrique Henny and 2 others
PMID 29097971WHAT IT FOUND
19 of 95 Chilean occupational therapy articles treated occupation as a practical way to explain behavior or support interventions; 7 treated it as an object of study.
Key findings
01Of 95 articles published in the journal between 2001 and 2012, 19 met inclusion criteria.
02The analysis identified two main approaches: 12 articles considered occupation or occupational science from a practical perspective or as a means to explain human behavior, and 7 articles considered occupation or occupational science as an object of study.
03The practical approach was divided into categories: using an occupational perspective to explain a phenomenon, elucidating an occupational science or occupation concept to support a therapeutic intervention, and analyzing the impact and benefit of occupation in daily life.
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What it does not show
This review covers only articles from one Chilean journal between 2001 and 2012, so it does not represent all occupational therapy literature. Only 19 of 95 published articles met the inclusion criteria, so many articles were not analyzed. The paper states that the findings are applicable only to this specific geographic and cultural sphere. It reports how authors framed occupation concepts, not patient outcomes or tested effects of interventions. The method relied on team categorization and grounded theory, not a clinical trial or meta-analysis.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that occupational therapy interventions using occupation concepts are effective. The review describes categories of theoretical approaches in journal articles, not patient outcomes.