Deck 1: Occupational Therapy As an Evidence-Based Practice Profession

Question 1

There exists a dynamic relationship between research and practice. Professional research should be used to inform practice theory and interventions; equally, practice should influence and guide the direction of future research.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

A core tenet of evidence-based practice for occupational therapy is that interventions utilized should be those that are validated through the best available clinical evidence without consideration of an individual therapist's clinical expertise.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A client's values should influence and be considered when providing evidence-based occupational therapy services.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) and its established prescriptive guidelines closely reflect the philosophical beliefs and nature of occupational therapy (OT). Therefore, its principles are directly replicated with evidence-based OT practice.

Question 5

Explanations offered by a practice theory are always tentative, and must be refined through research.

Question 6

Participatory research involves inclusion of recipients of services (or consumers) in the data collection and dissemination process only after a specific research hypothesis has been established by an investigator.

Question 7

Occupational therapy has a professional obligation to maintain a systematic and shared body of knowledge. Which of the following does not serve toward the development of evidence for this requirement?

A) Multiple studies establishing the psychometric qualities of a commonly used standardized assessment
B) A control trial quantifying the outcomes of a treatment strategy
C) The collective clinical expertise of an outpatient occupational therapy department
D) A series of studies testing and refining a practice theory utilized in practice

Question 8

Occupational therapists offer a unique perspective towards identifying and addressing deficits with clients' occupational participation. The area of research that examines how occupational therapists identify problems and make treatment decisions is:

A) Clinical reasoning research
B) Process research
C) Narrative research
D) Practice theory research

Question 9

The purpose of needs assessment research is to identify the gap between a client's or population's present status and that individual's or group's:

A) Previous status
B) Disability status
C) Desired status
D) Projected status

Question 10

Psychometric research may be used to evaluate an assessment according to multiple criteria. Which domain is not a measure of psychometric research?

A) Reliability
B) Validity
C) Clinical utility
D) Formative utility

Question 11

Formative research best seeks to identify what characteristic of an intervention of study?

A) The expected outcome of the intervention
B) The mechanism of change for the intervention
C) The frequency or duration required for an intervention to be effective
D) The clinical reasoning utilized in providing an intervention