Occupational Therapy Program, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Inquiry. 2024 Jan-Dec;61:469580241282060. doi: 10.1177/00469580241282060.
The purpose of this study was to develop the first English-Arabic occupational therapy dictionary mobile application that could be used by occupational therapy service providers and recipients and help fill the gap in understanding and communicating occupational therapy services. Google Play Store and App Store application stores were searched first to identify any current electronic occupational therapy dictionary. While developing the dictionary concept and structure, end users' needs, language, and culture were taken into consideration applying a user-friendly design, functionalities, and an easy-to-understand language with illustrative visual representations. Our search for currently available electronic occupational therapy dictionaries did not identify any mobile application on the official application stores for iPhone and Android. As a result, a conceptual model was created to develop a mobile application aiming to develop a comprehensive and user-friendly mobile electronic dictionary with over 2400 scientific terms translated and annotated from English to Arabic, more than 350 illustrative pictures, and special features to assist occupational therapy professionals and occupational therapy services recipients in looking up and understanding terminology used in rehabilitation and occupational therapy in the most convenient, fastest, and easiest way possible. The occupational therapy dictionary mobile application has helped create a unified terminology and a common language of shared understanding, proved to be a helpful tool of communicating important messages between Arab occupational therapy professionals and community members through providing an easy access to up-to-date comprehensive English-Arabic lexicography in occupational therapy. It has become the first digital occupational therapy dictionary worldwide and has been made available for everyone to download from Google Play and App Store on their smartphones, computers, or tablets free of charge. Further research is urgently needed for quality improvement and to further enrich Arabic content in occupational therapy through developing evidence-based mobile tools to be used in occupational therapy practice by Arabic-speaking population.
本研究旨在开发首个英阿职业治疗词典移动应用程序，供职业治疗服务提供者和使用者使用，帮助填补理解和交流职业治疗服务方面的空白。首先在 Google Play Store 和 App Store 应用商店中搜索当前任何电子职业治疗词典。在开发词典概念和结构时，考虑了最终用户的需求、语言和文化，采用了用户友好的设计、功能和易于理解的语言，并附有说明性的视觉表示。我们在官方应用商店中搜索了当前可用的电子职业治疗词典，并未在 iPhone 和 Android 上找到任何移动应用程序。因此，创建了一个概念模型，旨在开发一个移动应用程序，旨在开发一个全面且用户友好的移动电子词典，其中包含 2400 多个从英语翻译和注释为阿拉伯语的科学术语、350 多张说明图片以及特殊功能，以帮助职业治疗专业人员和职业治疗服务使用者以最方便、最快和最简单的方式查找和理解康复和职业治疗中使用的术语。职业治疗词典移动应用程序帮助创建了统一的术语和共同理解的通用语言，通过提供便捷获取最新全面的职业治疗英阿词典，被证明是在阿拉伯职业治疗专业人员和社区成员之间交流重要信息的有用工具。它已成为全球首个数字职业治疗词典，并已在 Google Play 和 App Store 上免费供所有人在智能手机、计算机或平板电脑上下载。迫切需要进一步研究，以通过开发基于证据的移动工具来提高质量，并进一步丰富职业治疗中的阿拉伯语内容，以便阿拉伯语使用者在职业治疗实践中使用。
