I heard a great example of this recently at a talk by Gaynor Sadlo. Research was carried out on the importance of bathing to people (general public, not specifically clients) and as it showed how important it was for many reasons beyond just getting clean, two local authorities (local government service providers) then changed their policy on providing people to give clients baths (which they had previously thought was not necessary).
I think this is exactly the kind of research that OTs should be involved in and use for evidence. There is lots of research being done by sociologists, psychologists etc that OTs can use. I am using literature from a specialist unit that studies leisure for example, there's research in changes in eating and food preparation habits and so on. This is 'evidence' it's just not linear like 'giving drug 'a' reduces symptoms in disease 'b'. Rayya Ghul On Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:15:25 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A better way to look at evidenced based practice view it as reason and logic > based. Meaning that you are taking your knowledge and understanding of the > client, occupation, science, current literature and practice methods and > integrating the ideas to form the best approach for treatment. By doing this > you can explain your treatment bringing more validity to practice and > hopefully providing more effective treatment. > > Jennifer > > *********��*********** > > Unsubscribe? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist > > ** List messages are archived at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > *********��*********** > ---------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********��*********** Unsubscribe? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message's *body*, put the following text: unsubscribe OTlist ** List messages are archived at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] *********��***********
