background : depression is a mood disorder in which the individual experiences feelings of sadness, lack of pleasure, and discouragement. in light of the increasing rate of depression, especially among tertiary-educated individuals, this paper aims to investigate the effect of resistance exercises on occupational performance areas and depression score in individuals with academic education in i...

This document was developed to help occupa· tional therapists apply Uniform TerminologySecond Edition to practice. A grid format (Dunn, 1988) allows a therapist to systematically identify an individual's deficit and strength areas and to select appropriate activities to address these areas in occupational therapy intervention. On the grid (see Appendix A), the horizontal axis is composed of the...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the effectiveness of occupational performance coaching in improving children's and mothers' occupational performance and mothers' parenting self-competence. METHOD A one-group time-series design was used to evaluate changes in children's (n = 29) and mothers' (n = 8) occupational performance at four time points: (1) pre-wait list, (2) preintervention, (3) postint...

The Guide to Occupational Therapy Practice by Moyers (AJOT, 53[3], 247–322) is an attempt to define the general scope of occupational therapy for practitioners, health care professionals, teachers, reimbursement organizations, and policymakers. The document, however, raises a major concern about what truly is our profession’s scope of practice. There is an overriding emphasis placed on occupati...

This paper uses the techniques of exploratory spatial data analysis to analyse patterns of spatial association for different indicators of economic performance, and in so doing identify and describe the spatial structure of economic performance for Great Britain. This approach enables us to identify a number of significant local regimes – clusters of areas in which income per worker differs sig...

The objective of the revised Reactor Oversight Process is to monitor licensee performance in the areas of reactor safety, radiation safety, and security. This paper describes the NRC’s revised Reactor Oversight Process and how it is used to assess licensee performance against stated objectives in seven areas (or cornerstones) of plant operations. One of the seven cornerstones of the Reactor Ove...

BACKGROUND This paper examines the results of a critical literature review describing the provision of education and functional training programs by occupational therapists with older adults to maximize their occupational performance. PURPOSE The critical review addressed the following question: What is the effectiveness of education and functional training programs in improving occupational ...

In theory and in practice, context (as an area of concern to occupational therapists) has not received the same attention as performance components and performance areas. The Ecology of Human Performance serves as a framework for considering the effect of context. Context is described as a lens from which persons view their world. The interrelationship of person and context determines which tas...

introduction: macro-ergonomics is an important factor that affects behavior, favorable performance and personnel’s efficiency that can cause conformity of employees by increasing labor and efficiency and in result decreasing employees’ stress amount. the aim of the present study was to investigate relationship between macro-ergonomics and occupational stress in employees working in one casting ...