Strategies occupational therapists employ to facilitate work-related transitions for persons with hand injuries: a study protocol for a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hands make it possible to be employable and productive, to communicate non-verbally and to perform fine motor tasks required in day-to-day activities. Sustaining a hand injury can be detrimental to function including the ability to work. As the literature on work-related transitions is scattered across a range of journals, it is difficult to get a sense of how much literature there is, what is known and where the gaps lie. This scoping study will provide a single source of up-to-date evidence to inform health professionals about the strategies occupational therapists employ to facilitate work-related transitions for people with hand injuries.

Methods and analysis

The methodological framework by Arksey and O'Malley (2005) will form the structure of the scoping re

SUBMITTER: Uys ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6500360 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature