Hi All; This is meant to be a thought provoking informal poll. Here's the question...
"Is the title 'Occupational Therapist' a barrier to the general public's understanding and / or to the status of our profession?" *"Small Effect on OT professions status" "No impact on OT professions Status" "Significant Barrier to OT profession's status." or separately "Never considered it before." * Situation: I am looking for a informal poll of all of you on our title. The title "Occupational Therapist" has been a barrier to me in describing what we do. Background: In a recent poll 500 American's completed a survey on Healthcare. Of these 52% "don't know" and 29.2% thought OT was about jobs, work or career (81.2% in total). 14.2% had a fairly good definition of OT. (Removing Healthcare workers: 54% don't know... 29% work related (83% of the general public don't know what OT does or think it's about work) and only 12.3% with a pretty good definition.) By contrast ~11% of respondents reported that they didn't know what Physical Therapy was. Please contact aloft....@gmail.com if you would like a breakdown of the data. We will have a discussion in a follow up email. Thanks for your participation, Ed Kaine, OTR/L, RFT President of the League of Functional Therapists -- Options? www.otnow.com/mailman/options/otlist_otnow.com Archive? www.mail-archive.com/otlist@otnow.com
