Withers Renée, Tsang Yoyo, Zwicker Jill G
Can J Occup Ther. 2017 Jun;84(3):158-167. doi: 10.1177/0008417417712285.
Occupational therapists are well positioned to provide intervention to improve outcomes for children with developmental coordination disorder. However, little is known about what occupational therapy services are provided for these children.
As part of a larger study exploring service provision for children with developmental coordination disorder, the purpose of this study was to examine intervention and referral practices of occupational therapists in British Columbia, Canada.
An online survey was e-mailed to a convenience and snowball sample of paediatric occupational therapists, with 165 therapists responding. Descriptive statistics were used for the data analysis.
Results show that the type and duration of intervention varied greatly throughout the province, as well as within health regions. Although 70% (87/124) of therapists reported being at least moderately familiar with current evidence, only 47% to 59% selected task-based methods as their primary intervention approach.
Findings provide a baseline for current intervention and an opportunity for targeted knowledge translation initiatives.
职业治疗师在为发育性协调障碍儿童提供干预以改善其预后方面具有良好的条件。然而，对于为这些儿童提供何种职业治疗服务却知之甚少。
作为一项探索为发育性协调障碍儿童提供服务的大型研究的一部分，本研究旨在调查加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省职业治疗师的干预和转诊实践。
通过电子邮件向儿科职业治疗师的便利样本和滚雪球样本发送在线调查问卷，有165名治疗师回复。数据分析采用描述性统计。
结果表明，全省以及各健康区域内干预的类型和持续时间差异很大。尽管70%（87/124）的治疗师报告至少对当前证据有一定程度的了解，但只有47%至59%的治疗师选择基于任务的方法作为其主要干预方法。
研究结果为当前的干预提供了基线，并为有针对性的知识转化举措提供了契机。
