Occupational Therapy Practitioner Interventions for Individuals with Hoarding Tendencies: A Descriptive and Associational Survey
Faith Kretzer,
Sydney Ragsdale,
Liz Keefer,
Malynn O’Baker,
Daniel Martin,
Kelly Hubbard
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 3, May 2023
Pages:
63-70
Received:
24 April 2023
Accepted:
10 May 2023
Published:
24 May 2023
Abstract: Hoarding Disorder is a condition often referred to occupational therapy for comprehensive assessment and intervention, however the strategies that occupational therapy professionals use in the clinical management of hoarding behaviors is poorly understood. The purpose of this mixed methods survey design research was to collect and analyze information on the beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of common and effective intervention techniques currently used among occupational therapy professionals to address hoarding behaviors. A total of 18 (n = 18) responding occupational therapy professionals met inclusion criteria. Occupational therapy professionals universally indicated that environmental modification strategies were utilized as an intervention to manage hoarding behaviors, and the majority of participants also indicated the use of ADL training, IADL training, household mobility training, occupation-based therapeutic activity, personal safety training and self-management training as interventions for Hoarding Disorder. Regression analysis between the perceived effectiveness of a given intervention and the reported frequency of how often the intervention was used indicated that occupational therapy professionals found that the following interventions were generally most effective for the management of Hoarding Disorder: environmental modification, rs(18) =.550, p =.018, VS-MPR = 5.09; personal safety training, rs(18) =.543, p =.020, VS-MPR = 4.70; creative expression activities, rs(18) =.624, p =.006, VS-MPR = 11.98; ADL training, rs(18) =.412, p =.066, VS-MPR = 2.05; self management training, rs(18) =.443, p =.075, VS-MPR = 1.89; and occupation-based therapeutic activities, rs(18) =.444, p =.063, VS-MPR = 2.11. The results of this study affirm that occupational therapy professionals generally find complex systems of techniques as more effective than single techniques for treating those with hoarding disorders, however further research is needed to better understand which occupational therapy assessments and interventions work well together as effective treatment systems.
Abstract: Hoarding Disorder is a condition often referred to occupational therapy for comprehensive assessment and intervention, however the strategies that occupational therapy professionals use in the clinical management of hoarding behaviors is poorly understood. The purpose of this mixed methods survey design research was to collect and analyze informati...
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Resilience, Death Anxiety, and Mental Health of COVID-19 Survivors
Ravi P. Pandey,
Shivangi Bansal,
Tanya Sharma,
Vivek Singh,
Deepak Kumar,
Pramod Kumar
Issue:
Volume 12, Issue 3, May 2023
Pages:
71-78
Received:
4 June 2023
Accepted:
20 June 2023
Published:
6 July 2023
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic, a notable viral outbreak of the twenty-first century, has posed unparalleled challenges to global mental health. It has potentially escalated stress, anxiety, fear, frustration, and social isolation, impacting both our physical and psychological well-being. Patients and healthcare professionals are given psychological support, but the general public's mental health also needs a lot of attention. Therefore, present study have been conducted to examine the role of resilience, mental health, and death anxiety among COVID-19 survivors. The study was carried out on 150 COVID-19 survivors (75 male & 75 female) who were residing in urban and rural areas of Rewari, Mahendergarh and Gurgaon district of Haryana. Participants were assessed using the resilience scale, death anxiety scale, and mental health continuum scale short form. Analysis revealed that female COVID-19 survivors tend to have higher levels of death anxiety and better mental health than male COVID survivors, whereas no significant difference was found in resilience differences between male and female COVID-19 survivors. It was also revealed that there was no significant difference between urban and rural areas COVID survivors on death anxiety, mental health, and resilience. Correlation analysis shows that resilience was found positively correlated with the mental health of COVID survivors whereas death anxiety was negatively associated with the mental health of the COVID-19 survivors.
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic, a notable viral outbreak of the twenty-first century, has posed unparalleled challenges to global mental health. It has potentially escalated stress, anxiety, fear, frustration, and social isolation, impacting both our physical and psychological well-being. Patients and healthcare professionals are given psychological support...
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