Deck 5: Evidence-Based Practice for Occupational Therapy

Question 1

A need statement should specify who is the target of the problem,what changes are desired,what degrees of change is desired,and which of the following?

A) Data needed
B) Reflexive intervention one needs to provide
C) The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure
D) How one will recognize that change has occurred
E) The problem statement

Answer 1

D
Determining how to measure change is a critical component of the need statement.

Question 2

Which type of statement reflects what clients and relevant others would like to happen?

A) Objective
B) Specificity
C) Goal
D) Operational
E) Outcome

Answer 2

C
A goal is a statement about what clients and relevant others would like to happen.

Question 3

What are the two kinds of objectives?

A) Reflexive and systematic
B) Process and outcome
C) Goals and causes
D) Downstream and upstream
E) Scientific and intuitive

Answer 3

B
Process and outcome are the two kinds of objectives.

Question 4

"Jane will arrive at work on time." This is an example of which type of objective?

A) Process
B) Intuitive
C) Outcome
D) Specific
E) Reflexive

Question 5

Which of the following statements is false?

A) It is an ethical obligation of occupational therapy (OT) professionals to collaborate with clients regarding their service need, provision, risk, and outcome.
B) Systematic OT practice (SOTP) steps are similar to the OT process.
C) Evidence is information used to support a claim.
D) Thinking processes involve the selection of the theoretical framework to be used to assess problems and plan strategy.
E) Inductive reasoning begins with a theory and reduces the theory to its parts, which are then verified through examination with experimental-type research.

Question 6

Which is the correct order of steps in systematic OT practice?

A) Initial problem statement, need statement, goals and objectives, reflexive intervention, and outcome assessment
B) Need statement, initial problem statement, reflexive intervention, goals and objectives, and outcome assessment
C) Need statement, problem statement, goals and intervention, and outcome assessment
D) Initial problem statement, referral to OT, systematic assessment, intervention, and final assessment
E) Referral to OT, problem assessment, intervention, and revision of intervention

Question 7

Systematically monitoring the client,the collaboration,professional practice,setting-based resources,and therapeutic use of self and other internal and external influences that affect practice process and outcome is all part of _______________.

A) Process assessment
B) Objective assessment
C) Reflexive intervention
D) Goals
E) Compensatory strategies

Question 8

In systematic OT practice the ___________ and ___________ emerge from the need statement.

A) Goals, objectives
B) Problems, interventions
C) Thinking, action processes
D) Inductive, deductive reasoning
E) Causes, consequences

Question 9

The three sources of credible evidence in evidence-based practice are professionally generated evidence,scientific evidence,and which of the following?

A) Professional education
B) Professional experience
C) Client-generated
D) Scientific inquiry
E) Ethical considerations

Question 10

Which of the following is a problem statement?

A) A type of intervention
B) A specific claim of what is not desired or what should be changed
C) A type of outcome assessment
D) Understanding what is needed to resolve all or part of the problem
E) Setting goals and objectives

Question 11

The Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)__________.

A) Is not client based
B) Is a standardized cognitive assessment
C) Is used for process objective assessment
D) Can be used only as a pretest
E) Is a criterion-referenced outcome measure

Question 12

Which of the following pairs of questions are asked about the problem during problem mapping?

A) Why is this person referred to OT? What caused the problem?
B) What is the consequence of the problem? What are other problems the person is experiencing?
C) What caused the problem? What is the consequence of the problem?
D) What needs to be done first? What else needs to be done?
E) Why is this person referred to OT? What else needs to be done?