Effectiveness of Activity-Based Group Work in Community Mental Health: A Systematic Review

Bullock, Alison; Bannigan, Katrina

doi:10.5014/ajot.2011.001305

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“…Bullock and Bannigan (2011), reflecting on the challenges of undertaking a systematic review on the effectiveness of activity groups, reported that the differences in relation to aspects of intervention and outcome measures made it impossible to make comparisons or pool the findings of the published studies. Managers will face similar issues as they seek to aggregate service data or use data for benchmarking as there is significant inconsistency in the data collected.…”

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Evidencing What Works: Are Occupational Therapists Using Clinical Information Effectively?

Morley¹

2014

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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The United Kingdom (UK) Department of Health's current information strategy (Department of Health [DH] 2012) sets a 10-year framework that covers public health, healthcare, and social care in England. It confirms that data from clinical records will be used to audit quality, guide commissioning, and allow benchmarking of services. This will be facilitated by a shift from an England-wide information system to local systems, with responsibility for these resting with commissioners and providers (DH 2012). Organizations are now in the process of planning these changes, so presenting an opportunity for occupational therapists to collaborate on identifying information requirements in order to influence systems to demonstrate both clinical and cost effectiveness.Although electronic records have been available to occupational therapists for a number of years, as with other allied health professionals, the uptake has been slow (Pettigrew 2012). Practitioners, professional bodies, and regulators have been urged to engage in this agenda in order to quantify the improvement made to the lives of patients, to demonstrate organizational and financial outcomes, and to strengthen the professions' visibility in the new commissioning landscape.Significant progress has been made in nursing to work collectively on standardized information sets to evaluate health outcomes (Hardiker 2011, VanDeVelde-Coke et al 2012). Nurse leaders have called for a cultural change in how practitioners think about what information they need to drive quality, how that information is collected, stored, and retrieved, and how this information can provide evidence of the relationship between costs, the process of care, and its resulting outcomes.The College of Occupational Therapists (COT 2014) has launched a strategic vision for occupational therapy informatics for the next 10 years. This sets out the key areas of informatics that are important to occupational therapy practice, research, education, and commissioning occupational therapy services.This practice analysis looks at clinical information across a number of occupational therapy services and discusses the profession's readiness to demonstrate clinical and cost effectiveness. The first section considers the extent to which occupational therapists use the tools available to them within the electronic record. It then examines the information from a single organization This practice analysis considers the extent to which mental health occupational therapists utilize standardized assessments and other tools within local electronic clinical records. There is further analysis of a clinical dataset from a single service that highlights limitations in its use to inform cost effectiveness evaluation. The paper highlights the opportunity for the profession to promote greater consistency across clinical datasets at a time when many electronic record systems are being updated. This will require a collaborative approach to allow cross-organizational benchmarking and to adopt a set of variables and other outcome...

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Evidencing What Works: Are Occupational Therapists Using Clinical Information Effectively?

Morley¹

2014

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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“…The enrichment meant a stronger focus on groups, which has been found effective in interventions in community mental health care (36) and occupational therapy (37) to promote health and well--being. Belonging to a group has also shown to be an important aspect of meaning in life (23,38,39).…”

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Adding quality to day centre activities for people with psychiatric disabilities: Staff perceptions of an intervention

Eklund

Leufstadius

2015

Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Aim: To evaluate an intervention aimed at enriching day centres for people with psychiatric disabilities by exploring staff experiences from developing and implementing the intervention.Method: Each staff group developed a tailor--made intervention plan, following a manual, for how to enrich the day centre. They received supervision and support from the research team. The study was based on focus group interviews with a total of thirteen staff members at four day centres. Narrative analysis with a thematic approach was used. A first round resulted in one narrative per centre. These centre--specific narratives were then integrated into a common narrative that covered all the data.Results: A core theme emerged; User involvement permeated the implementation process and created empowerment. It embraced four themes forming a timeline: Mix of excitement, worries and hope, Confirmation and development through dialogue, feedback and guidance, The art of integrating new activities and strategies with the old, and Empowerment engendered future aspirations.Conclusion: The users' involvement and empowerment were central for the staff in accomplishing the desired changes in services, as were their own reflections and learning. A possible factor that may have contributed to the positive outcomes was that those who were central in developing the plan were the same as those who implemented it.

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“…More recently, the phrase lifestyle redesign has characterized occupational therapy among those striving to make healthy life changes (Jackson, Carlson, Mandel, Zemke, & Clark, 1998;Moyers & Stoffel, 2001). Results of a recent systematic review of activity-based group work led in community mental health settings, however, indicated that the most that can be concluded is that activity groups may be an effective intervention with similar or improved effect as verbally based groups with similar aims (Bullock & Bannigan, 2011). The need for further research is clear.…”

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Population-Centered Life Skills Groups: Perceptions of Satisfaction and Engagement

Peloquin

Carrie

2013

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy

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PURPOSE. We examined the satisfaction with and engagement in population-centered life skills groups of women in a residential facility for substance dependence. METHOD. This study was a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of 561 surveys designed to elicit Likert scale client ratings. Descriptive statistics were used to examine client satisfaction. Differences in client engagement by content focus and activity process were also examined by analyzing the median scores of eight life skills development questions using the Kruskal-Wallis test of medians. RESULTS. Collectively, 96.8% of those who completed the surveys were satisfied with the living skills groups; 73.3% strongly agreed, and 23.4% agreed. No significant differences (p > .05) were found in the median scores of the engagement responses by either content focus or activity process. CONCLUSION. Population-centered life skills groups conceptualized within a holistic Person-Environment-Occupation model appear to be satisfactory and engaging interventions for women in recovery.

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Effectiveness of Activity-Based Group Work in Community Mental Health: A Systematic Review

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Evidencing What Works: Are Occupational Therapists Using Clinical Information Effectively?

Evidencing What Works: Are Occupational Therapists Using Clinical Information Effectively?

Adding quality to day centre activities for people with psychiatric disabilities: Staff perceptions of an intervention

Population-Centered Life Skills Groups: Perceptions of Satisfaction and Engagement

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