Similar but different: A qualitative study of occupational therapists' transformational experiences during practice education.

Eleven participants were recruited by convenience and snowball sampling, so the sample may not represent all occupational therapists. Eight participants graduated from Australian universities, and all but one experience occurred in Western countries, so the settings and cultures may be narrow. Most experiences happened in hospitals, so community and other settings are less represented. The term transformational experience was used in a new way, and some participants may have misunderstood it or described expected placement learning instead. The authors included an occupational therapy student and two academics, so their experience may have shaped interpretation.

Do not read this as proof that a particular placement activity improves therapy outcomes. The study reports how occupational therapists interpreted past placement experiences, not a comparison of treatments.