RSS 1.0Occupational Therapy (Theses and Dissertations)
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Supporting patients and family caregivers in end-of-life care decision-making from the perspective of healthcare professionals in palliative care
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2025)Healthcare professionals in specialist palliative care have a key role in conducting end-of-life care discussions with patients and their family caregivers. However, what enables or restricts healthcare professionals in ... -
A Comparative Evaluation of Two Delivery Methods for a Work Focused Fatigue Management Intervention for Individuals with Inflammatory Arthritis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2025)ABSTRACT Background: Inflammatory Arthritis (IA) often leads to early work disability, impacting employment and causing socio-economic challenges. Fatigue is a major symptom that affects productivity and increases ... -
Complex Trauma in Childhood: Informing Occupational Therapy Practice
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2025)Background: There is a dearth of evidence available to support occupational therapy practice with children experiencing complex trauma. No occupational therapy-specific guidelines exist. The occupational experiences of ... -
A Qualitative Exploration of Living with and Managing Post COVID-19 Condition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2025)Background: Post COVID-19 condition, or long COVID, has been largely studied via quantitative assessments, focusing on symptom prevalence and severity. However, limited research has explored how individuals experience the ... -
Exploring the Experiences of Autistic Graduate Women in Navigating the World of Work
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2024)International research highlights poor prospects for autistic individuals in gaining and maintaining work (Baldwin et al., 2014; Harvery et al., 2021; Hendricks, 2010; Maslahati et al., 2022; Scott et al., 2019). Participation ... -
INCOT: Irish Neonatal Care in Occupational Therapy Study: The Development of an Occupational Therapy Intervention for Neonatal Units in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2024)Background: Occupational therapists (OTs) play an important role in neonatal units internationally. This is a growing area of practice in Ireland, but it is not yet part of the standard of care in all neonatal units. ... -
Mutual Support Between Patients and Family Caregivers in Palliative Care
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2024)Background: Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care approach to improve quality of life and alleviate symptom distress for people living with life-limiting conditions and their families. A systematic review conducted ... -
Parent-Infant Sleep as Co-Occupation: A Meta-Ethnography of Parent Experiences and Perspectives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2024)Sleep is a key component of health and wellbeing for both adults and infants and has implications for daytime functioning and quality of life. Infants' sleep patterns in the first two years involve unpredictable, short ... -
Refining the psychometric properties of the Trinity Student Profile - A self-report measure of occupational performance difficulties within the student role in higher education.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2024)Background: The Trinity Student Profile (TSP) is a self-report measure of occupational performance difficulties within the university student role and is based on the Person-Environment-Occupation Model. The tool was ... -
A stakeholders perspective on the 'kickstart to recovery' football programme in a community mental health service
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2022)Introduction: One in four Irish people will experience mental health difficulties. Those with mental illness often don t receive best practice physical healthcare due to the division between service areas in Ireland and ... -
The development and feasibility of the occupational therapy-led `Work and Cancer' intervention for women living with and beyond breast cancer
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2022)Background: Increased survivorship has prompted focus on optimising quality of life for those living with and beyond cancer, including reintegration into work. Despite frequently cited return-to-work barriers for women ... -
An Investigation into an Occupation-Focused Self-Management Programme for College Students experiencing Mental Health Difficulties.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2022)Background: In response to ever increasing numbers of students in higher education experiencing mental health difficulties, an occupation-focused self-management programme, called the Unilink Self-Management Programme ... -
Assessment of older adults' decision-making capacity in relation to independent living: The role of occupational therapy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2022)Introduction Decision-making capacity (DMC) is the extent to which an individual is capable of understanding and remembering information and using this to make and communicate their choices regarding their personal, financial ... -
Addressing Participation with Early Inflammatory Arthritis: Insights into the Lived Experience and Exploring a Clinical Model to Address Participation Restrictions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2021)The focus of this multiphase study is exploring the impacts of inflammatory arthritis on participation and engagement in life roles, and how clinical services address client-identified participation restrictions associated ... -
Examining the impact of a social prescribing service on the health & wellbeing of individuals living with and beyond cancer
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2020)Social prescribing is a community-based intervention that supports individuals with health needs and chronic conditions to access activities supports in their community. Due to medical improvements, more people than ever ... -
The 'Kickstart to Recovery' programme; a quantitative evaluation of a football programme for mental health service users in an Irish context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2020)Football is increasingly being used to support recovery and physical activity for mental health service users. The 'Kickstart to Recovery' programme is a collaboration between occupational therapy and the Football Association ... -
Movement Matters: Developing school-based occupational therapy practice in Irish post primary schools.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2019)Occupational therapists face challenges of practice development when working in emerging settings. This study provides an understanding of the process of developing practice in Irish mainstream post primary schools with ... -
The OPTIMAL study: A randomized controlled trial and process evaluation of an occupational therapy led self-management support programme for people with multimorbidity in primary care
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2019)Title: The OPTIMAL study: A randomized controlled trial and process evaluation of an occupational therapy led self-management support programme for people with multimorbidity in primary care PhD candidate: Lynn O ... -
An Exploration of Staff's Support with Adults with Autism in Occupational Engagement in their Daily Lives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2019)Background: The researcher views people with autism as occupational beings, who often need support to participate and engage in valued occupations in their day to day life. There is a paucity of research relating to factors ... -
Evaluate the effectiveness and sustainability of OptiMal as a self-management intervention for cancer survivors
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2019)Introduction: There are over 150,000 cancer survivors in Ireland and survival rates are continuing to increase. Cancer survivors experience continuing symptoms such as pain, fatigue, cognitive difficulties, anxiety and ...
