Evidence for Mental Health Occupational Therapy: Trends in the First Decade of the New Millennium (2000-2013)

SAGE Open

Danielle Hitch¹ 

关键词: occupational therapy;    mental health;    evidence;    research;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244015604694

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

This article reports on the evidence for mental health occupational therapy in peer-reviewed journals from 2000 to 2013. Descriptive and inductive methods were used to address this question, with evidence from CINAHL, OTDBase, PSYCInfo, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar® included. Many articles (n = 1,747) were found that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. A total of 47 different methods were used to develop evidence for mental health occupational therapy, and evidence appeared in 300 separate peer-reviewed journals. It takes on average 7 months for an article to progress from submission to acceptance, and a further 7 months to progress from acceptance to publication. More than 95% of articles published between 2000 and 2002 were cited at least once in the following decade, and around 70% of these citations were recorded in non-occupational therapy journals. The current evidence base for mental health occupational therapy is both substantial and diverse.

【 授权许可】

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