Journal•ISSN: 0276-1599
Occupational Therapy Journal of Research
SAGE Publishing
About: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Occupational therapy & Qualitative research. It has an ISSN identifier of 0276-1599. Over the lifetime, 404 publications have been published receiving 8698 citations.
Topics: Occupational therapy, Qualitative research, Reliability (statistics), Higher education, Rasch model
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TL;DR: Standardized procedures for the Nine Hole Peg Test of finger dexterity were established, females scored slightly better than males, finger dexterity decreased with age, and right-hand and left-hand dominant subjects demonstrated minimal differences in performance.
Abstract: The purposes of this study were to establish standardized procedures for the Nine Hole Peg Test of finger dexterity, to evaluate its reliability and validity, and to establish new clinical norms based on these standardized procedures. For the reliability and validity study, 26 female occupational therapy students were tested Very high interrater reliability (right r = .97, left r = .99) was found Test-retest reliability was reported to be moderate to high (right r = .69, left r = .43) and a significant practice effect was found between the test and retest occasions. Possible variables that may have affected these results are discussed To evaluate concurrent validity, the Nine Hole Peg Test was compared to the Purdue Pegboard. The observed correlations (right r = −.61, left r = −.53) indicated that the tests are similar but not equivalent tests of finger dexterity. For the normative data study, 628 normal subjects from 20 to 94 years were tested Data were stratified by sex and by 12 age groups to allow the...
790 citations
TL;DR: The Role Checklist as discussed by the authors is a two-part written inventory designed to identify past, present, and future roles and the degree to which they will be used in the future.
Abstract: This article describes the development and reliability testing of the Role Checklist, a two-part written inventory designed to identify past, present, and future roles and the degree to which indiv...
157 citations
TL;DR: Results showed that poor handwriters scored more poorly than good handwriters on most of the perceptual-motor tests and that motor planning, as measured by the Finger Position Imitation Test, contributed the most to the legibility of handwriting.
Abstract: The concept that handwriting is primarily a perceptual-motor act is held by various authors (Chapman & Wedell, 1972; Furner, 1969; Sovick, 1975; Ziviani, Hayes, & Chant, 1990). However, the assumption that poor handwriters would perform less well than good handwriters on perceptual-motor tests has not yet been well researched. The purpose of this study was to examine this assumption as well as the relationship of perceptual-motor abilities to the legibility of handwriting. One hundred forty-three Chinese children in grades 3 through 5 served as subjects. Perceptual-motor tests that measured the abilities proposed to be subskills of handwriting were administered along with a handwriting test. Results showed that poor handwriters scored more poorly than good handwriters on most of the perceptual-motor tests. Regression analysis revealed that among the perceptual-motor measures visual-motor integration, as measured by the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, and eye-hand coordination, as measured ...
149 citations
TL;DR: Results suggested that the Test of Play fulness is both valid and reliable when applied to children, with or without disabilities, between 15 months and 10 years.
Abstract: Since play wears many faces, occupational therapists (OTs) are concerned with the ways it may be expressed. Because adaptability is an important by-product of approaching activity in a playful mann...
126 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the duration of intertrial rest periods on isometric grip strength scores in successive trials with the use of the power grip attachment of the Baltimore Therapeutic Equipment work simulator was examined.
Abstract: This study examined the effect of the duration of intertrial rest periods on isometric grip strength scores in successive trials with the use of the power grip attachment of the Baltimore Therapeutic Equipment work simulator. Male and female subjects, 19 to 41 years of age, were randomly assigned to one of three groups, categorized by 15-, 30-, or 60-sec rest periods between five consecutive isometric grip tests. No significant differences were found between the groups in the pattern of decline in torque across trials. However, the group with the longest intertrial rest period had a significantly smaller percentage of decline in torque from the first to the last trial and the highest intraclass correlation coefficient between the five trials for both hands. In addition, the same group of subjects demonstrated significantly smaller differences in torque from the first to the second pretrial, which had a 2-min rest period, than from the first to the second experimental trial, which had shorter intertrial re...
110 citations