Bonsaksen Tore, Kvarsnes Hildegunn, Dahl Mona
a Department of Occupational Therapy, Prosthetics and Orthotics , Faculty of Health Sciences , Oslo , Norway ;
b Lønnås Residential and Rehabilitation Center , Bærum Municipality , Hosle , Norway.
Scand J Occup Ther. 2016 Jul;23(4):297-303. doi: 10.3109/11038128.2015.1105293. Epub 2015 Nov 5.
Research on occupational therapy students has often been concerned with quite narrow topics. However, the basic characteristics of this group are yet to be examined in more depth.
This study aimed to explore the sociodemographic, education-related, and work-related characteristics of occupational therapy students. A sample of 160 occupational therapy students in Norway participated. Differences between cohorts of students were examined with one-way analyses of variance (ANOVA) for continuous variables and with chi-square tests for categorical variables.
The sample had a mean age of 24 years and was predominantly female (79%). More than one -third of the students had one or both parents in an occupation requiring health education, whereas two-thirds of the students had one or both parents in an occupation requiring higher education. At entry, 57% of the participants had occupational therapy as their preferred choice of education and 43% had previous higher education experience. The few significant differences between the study cohorts were negligible.
In the education programmes, specific attention may be considered for students with characteristics associated with increased risk of poorer study performance or other problems. This may concern male students and students with no previous higher education experience.
对职业治疗专业学生的研究往往关注的是相当狭窄的主题。然而，这一群体的基本特征尚未得到更深入的研究。
本研究旨在探讨职业治疗专业学生的社会人口学特征、与教育相关的特征以及与工作相关的特征。挪威160名职业治疗专业学生参与了此次研究。对连续变量采用单因素方差分析（ANOVA），对分类变量采用卡方检验，以检验不同学生群体之间的差异。
样本的平均年龄为24岁，且以女性为主（79%）。超过三分之一的学生有一位或两位家长从事需要健康教育的职业，而三分之二的学生有一位或两位家长从事需要高等教育的职业。入学时，57%的参与者将职业治疗作为他们首选的教育专业，43%的参与者有过高等教育经历。各研究群体之间的少数显著差异可以忽略不计。
在教育项目中，对于那些具有学习成绩较差或其他问题风险增加特征的学生，可能需要给予特别关注。这可能涉及男学生和没有高等教育经历的学生。
