A survey was administered to patients and their therapists in an attempt to assess which therapeutic factors were perceived as helpful in occupational therapy groups. The patients' responses were compared to their therapists' for similarities and differences. Both groups highly valued factors of group cohesiveness, instillation of hope, and interpersonal learning. The therapists also valued gui...

Burnout is a job-related condition involving feelings of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach & Jackson, 1981a) is the instrument most widely used to measure job-related stress in human service professions, such as occupational therapy. This study explored the application of the Maslach Burnout Inventory for use wit...

Addressing anxiety is no small feat, and it sounds like you?re headed in a great direction by considering therapy. As you?ve gleaned, a ?therapist? can mean any number of specialists. With all the choices out there ? Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), psychiatrist, psychologist, etc. ? how do you n...

BACKGROUND Long waiting times and large caseloads are a challenge to children's therapy services internationally. Research in hospital-based healthcare indicates that waiting times are a function of throughput, and that length of care episode is related to clinicians' caseload management behaviour (i.e. actions at assessment, treatment, post-treatment, and discharge). There have been few attemp...

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of physical therapy assistance to newborns and to provide a profile of physical therapists working in intensive care units in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in every hospital in São Paulo city that had at least one intensive care unit bed for newborns registered at the National Registry of Health Establ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies of expert physical therapists have sampled therapists based on years of clinical experience or reputation, not on their patients' clinical outcomes. The purposes of this study were to identify expert physical therapists by using patient self-reported outcomes and to describe the characteristics of clinicians whose patients with lumbar spine syndromes repo...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of the single-shot dual-energy subtraction technique for obtaining portal images. We prepared two storage phosphor plates for this study. A 1 mm thick tungsten sheet was placed between the two storage phosphor plates. A single use of the double-exposure technique provides two portal images simultaneously (i.e., a standard image ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Prompt identification of outpatients who may have proximal lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis (PDVT) is important, in part, because of the risk of pulmonary embolism. The purposes of our study were to determine the degree of accuracy of physical therapists' estimates of the probability of PDVT in hypothetical patient vignettes and to determine whether physical therapist...

BACKGROUND Physical therapists increasingly provide direct access services to patients with musculoskeletal conditions, and growing evidence supports the cost-effectiveness of this mode of healthcare delivery. However, further evidence is needed to determine if physical therapists have the requisite knowledge necessary to manage musculoskeletal conditions. Therefore, the purpose of this study w...