Using intervention mapping to develop an occupational therapy informed intervention for adolescents experiencing mental health difficulties.

WHAT IT FOUND

This paper outlines how a new occupational therapy intervention for adolescent mental health was designed using Intervention Mapping and MOHO theory.

It describes the programme structure but reports no patient outcomes because the intervention has not yet been tested.

What this paper is

This paper describes the systematic process used to develop a new occupational therapy intervention (the Activity Time Use Intervention, or ATUS24) for adolescents with emerging mental health difficulties. It details the application of the Intervention Mapping framework and the Model of Human Occupation to construct the programme's logic, themes, and session outlines. However, the intervention has not yet been tested in a clinical trial or feasibility study with patients. Therefore, there are no results regarding effectiveness, acceptability in a real-world setting, or clinical outcomes to report. The authors state that next steps involve trialling and evaluating the intervention.

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