A while back, a survey was put together by fellow list member Joe W.
The original survey was modified and the posted on the OTnow web site
where list readers and general Internet surfers could complete the
survey.
To date, there have been 43 usable responses to the survey and the
results are posted below.
What's missing from these results are participant narratives from two
questions. Once these are in a readable format, I will post them on the
Internet.
1. Primary Title:
OT 79.1%
OTA 4.7%
Student 14.0%
Other 2.3%
2. My primary place of work is in (a):
Do not work 11.6%
Academics 16.3%
School system 9.3%
Medical setting 46.5%
Student 11.6%
Consulting 4.7%
3. Occupational therapy as a vocation is a:
True profession 81.4%
Para-profession 18.6%
4. If a true profession, is OT autonomous or non-autonomous:
Autonomous 66.7%
Non-autonomous 33.3%
5. If a para-profession, should OT seek professional status:
Should seek 87.5%
Should not seek 25.0%
6. As a minimum, entry level education to practice as an occupational
therapist must be at which level:
Bachelor 39.5%
Master 55.8%
Doctoral 4.7%
7. If PT and SLP require entry level doctoral degree, will this change
your answer concerning entry level OT education:
Yes 55.8%
No 44.2%
8. As a minimum, entry-level education to practice as an occupational
therapy assistant must be at which level:
Associate 72.1%
Bachelor 27.9%
9. Occupational therapy curriculum must include "Human Occupation" as a
separate and dedicated course:
Yes, for both OT & OTA 76.2%
No for both OT and OTA 21.4%
Yes for OT only 2.4%
10. It is essential that occupational limitations be identified prior to
occupational therapy treatment:
Yes 90.5%
No 1.2%
11. Electro-therapy and other physical agent modalities should be
discarded from occupational therapy practice:
Yes 20.9%
No 79.1%
12. As it is most often practiced, hand therapy adequately represents
occupational therapy philosophy of care:
Yes 41.5%
No 58.5%
13. Occupational therapy should address lower-body physical dysfunction:
Yes 93.0%
No 7.0%
14. Which disciplines should be allowed to diagnose occupational dysfunction:
OT 90.7%
MD/DO 41.9%
DC 11.6%
PT 18.6%
SLP 16.3%
Other 9.3%
15. Direct access by Medicare/ Medicaid will help the image and
accessibility to the occupational therapy profession:
Yes 90.7%
No 9.3%
16. Which of the following should prescribe therapeutic exercises:
MD/DO 60.5%
DC 44.2%
PT 95.3%
OT 88.4%
17. Which of the following should prescribe therapeutic use of occupation:
MD/DO 25.6%
DC 9.3%
PT 11.6%
OT 97.7%
18. Occupational therapist should utilize exercise as treatment:
Yes 100.0%
No 0.0%
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