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Area of Science:

  • Occupational Therapy
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Healthcare Practice

Background:

  • Standardized cognitive assessments are crucial for identifying cognitive impairments and guiding occupational therapy services.
  • Current practices in acute care and inpatient rehabilitation settings require exploration regarding cognitive assessment utilization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the current practices of cognitive assessments within occupational therapy services in acute care and inpatient rehabilitation.
  • To identify barriers encountered by occupational therapists in implementing standardized cognitive assessments.

Main Methods:

  • A qualitative, cross-sectional study involving five focus groups with occupational therapy practitioners and key informant interviews with supervisors.
  • Data were collected from 31 occupational therapy practitioners and analyzed using inductive content analysis.

Main Results:

  • Most occupational therapists rely on informal methods, self-report measures, and basic neurocognitive screening tools, with limited use of standardized tests like performance-based tests (PBTs).
  • Key barriers identified include organizational pressures, difficulty accessing and applying evidence, workplace culture, environmental factors, and assessment complexity.
  • An outlier group was identified that consistently utilized PBTs for functional cognition assessment.

Conclusions:

  • Occupational therapy practice predominantly employs unstandardized cognitive assessment methods, with infrequent use of standardized tools.
  • Identified personal and organizational barriers align with existing literature, hindering the adoption of evidence-based assessments.
  • The successful integration of PBTs by the outlier group provides a model for overcoming implementation barriers and advancing evidence-based practice.