Bringing Evidence Into Everyday Practice Practical Strategies for Healthcare Professionals

by Dunn, Winnie W.

• ISBN13: 9781556428210
• ISBN10: 1556428219
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Slack Incorporated

Summary

Evidence-based research and decision making are increasingly in demand in professional practice.Bringing Evidence into Everyday Practice: Practical Strategies for Healthcare Professionalsis a unique workbook that offers students and professionals efficient strategies for translating evidence into everyday practices. Dr. Winnie Dunn has designedBringing Evidence into Everyday Practiceto be used as a step-by-step resource for students and professionals on how to understand and use evidence available in research and how to build solid decision-making patterns that will support professional practice. Features: bull; Step by step directions for understanding and using literature to craft evidence-based plans in professional practice bull; Exercises that provide practice on how to properly read research articles bull; Activities to prepare students and clinicians on how to synthesize information across similar articles bull; Applications that will teach how to understand methods and results bull; Opportunities for reflecting in action about oners"s own current practices and how to refine them With a vast amount of resources available today, it is critical for both the novice and experienced practitioner to use effective tactics. By following the specific steps insideBringing Evidence into Everyday Practice, a student, professional, interdisciplinary team, or study group can learn how to derive meaning from research articles in a more efficient way and then use the information to make informed decisions in everyday practice. Written in a user-friendly format, this text provides over twenty research articles and worksheets in a side-by-side layout as a convenient method for interpreting research. Bringing Evidence into Everyday Practice: Practical Strategies for Healthcare Professionalsis the only text that can both act as a companion workbook to literature and also encompass volumes of research within one text.

Author Biography

Winnie Dunn, PhD, OTR, FAOTA, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy Education at the University of Kansas. She was the Eleanor Clarke Slagle lecturer in 2001, received the Award of Merit from the American Occupational Therapy Association, received the A. Jean Ayres research award and the Chancellor’s teaching and research awards, served as a Kemper Teaching Fellow, and is a member of the Academy of Research of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation. She has contributed research and other writings to professional literature across her career. Currently she is involved in a statewide initiative called KANSAS: From Evidence to Practice; their purpose is to embed evidence-based practices into all the early intervention and school networks across the state. Her latest endeavor to translate research into practice involves the publication of a book for the public entitled Living Sensationally: Understanding Your Senses. Its focus is to translate her research about sensory processing into everyday language, so that everyone can understand their own, their family’s, their coworkers’, and their friends’ behaviors a little better.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Preface

Foreword

Introduction

How to Use This Book

Learning the Basics

Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice

Characterizing Responses to Evidence

Understanding and Using the Basic Parts of Research Articles

Practice Using Evidence to Design Best Practices

Examining Evidence Related to Assistive Devices

Examining Evidence Related to Use of Compensatory Strategies to Enhance Participation

Examining Evidence Related to Caregiving

Examining Evidence Related to Applying Sensory Processing Knowledge in Context

Examining Evidence Related to Constraint-Induced Therapy Interventions

Examining Evidence Related to Diet and Exercise

Expanding Your Knowledge and Skills for Evidence-Based Practice

Understanding Summary and Meta-Analysis Articles

Examining Evidence Related to Emerging and Controversial Practices

Creating Evidence Within Your Own Practice

Bibliography

Appendix Journal Articles for Activities

The Role of Anomalous Data in Knowledge Acquisition: A Theoretical Framework and Implications for Science Instruction

Barriers to the Use of Traditional Telephones by Older Adults With Chronic Health Conditions

Efficacy of Sensory and Motor Interventions for Children with Autism

The Influence of Vigorous versus Mild Exercise on Autistic Stereotyped Behaviors

The Effects of Physical Exercise on Self-Stimulation and Appropriate Responding in Autistic Children

The Effects of Exercise Intensity on the Stereotypic Behaviors of Individuals With Autism

Decreasing Self-Stimulatory Behavior with Physical Exercise in a Group of Autistic Boys

The Effects of Neurodevelopmental Treatment Versus Practice on the Reaching of Children With Spastic Cerebral Palsy

Parent Reports of Sensory Symptoms in Toddlers with Autism and Those with Other Developmental Disorders

The Effect of Training Older Adults With Stroke to Use Home-Based Assistive Devices

Incorporating or Resisting Assistive Devices: Different Approaches to Achieving a Desired Occupational Self-Image

Frail Older Adults' Self-Report of Their Most Important Assistive Device

Removing Environmental Barriers in the Homes of Older Adults With Disabilities Improves Occupational Performance

Randomized Controlled Trial of the Use of Compensatory Strategies to Enhance Adaptive Functioning in Outpatients with Schizophrenia

Use of Environmental Supports Among Patients With Schizophrenia

Caregiving and Autism: How Does Children's Propensity for Routinization Influence Participation in Family Activities?

Mothers of Children With Disabilities: Occupational Concerns and Solutions

Caregivers' Self-Initiated Support Toward Their Partners With Dementia When Performing an Everyday Occupation Together at Home

The Effect of Constraint-Induced Movement Treatment on Occupational Performance and Satisfaction in Stroke Survivors

Constraint-induced Movement Therapy for Hemiplegic Children With Acquired Brain Injuries

From the General to the Specific: Using Meta-Analytic Reports in Clinical Decision Making

Controversial Practices: The Need for a Reacculturation of Early Intervention Fields

Controversial Therapies for Young Children with Developmental Disabilities

Index

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