Occupational therapy’s long-standing expertise in activities of daily living includes involvement in the feeding, eating, and swallowing performance of individuals across the life span (AOTA, 2002). Both occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants1 provide essential services in the comprehensive management of feeding, eating, and swallowing problems. These problems can be wide r...

The performance of a judge in the disposition cases may be affected because occupational stress. It both psychological and physical This phenomenological study explored work stress, stressors, coping mechanisms judges Central Philippines. Participants were identified using purposive sampling technique. Ten (10) female first-level courts answered an unstructured interview. Six themes emerged fro...

In the changing science communication landscape, researchers may govern their public science-society relations through social media connections at fingertips. However, digital outreach create challenges for and cause changes in professionals' role. The aim of this qualitative interview study was to enhance understanding rarely explored organizational collaboration between professionals. results...

Participation is a broad construct that occupational therapy uses to describe the satisfactory engagement in a client’s chosen occupations and roles in home, work, and community environments [5]. Participation is so central to the practice of occupational therapy that it is one of the three overarching concepts that is used to describe the outcomes of occupational therapy services in the OT Pra...

this study examines the ideological content of six internationally-used elt textbooks, three british and three american. applying the theory and procedures of critical discourse analysis (cda), three aspects of the conversations in the textbooks, i.e. content, relations, and positions were examined. results suggest that in terms of content, british textbooks tend to entertain the students while...

Health workforce shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa are widely recognized, particularly of physicians, leading the training and deployment of Non-physician clinicians (NPCs). The paper by Eyal et al provides interesting and legitimate viewpoints on evolving role of physicians in context of decisive increase of NPCss in Sub-Saharan Africa. Certainly, in short or mid-term, NPCs will continue to be a...

BACKGROUND This study explores the level of Occupational Stress and main sources of occupational and personal stress among Rural Health Workers (RHW) of the health network of Mashhad district. METHODS The first part of the Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI) (called the Occupational Roles Questionnaire (ORQ)) was used to measure the Rural Health Workers occupational stress (N=172). A number o...