Training in client-centeredness enhances occupational therapist documentation on goal setting and client participation in goal setting in the medical records of people with stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the present study was to compare client-centeredness as it was documented by the occupational therapists in the units randomized to the intervention clusters with documentation by occupational therapists in the control clusters.

Design

Comparison of medical records.

Setting

The study is conducted in a context of a randomized controlled trial in Sweden, with 16 post-stroke rehabilitation units cluster randomized to intervention or control group.

Subjects

Occupational therapist documentation in medical records of 279 clients with stroke.

Main measures

The medical records were reviewed for their level of client-centeredness using a protocol developed from the Stewart et al model. The occupational therapists in the intervention groups pa

SUBMITTER: Flink M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5131628 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature