Occupational balance supporting interventions for working-age adults with mental ill-health: A Scoping review: OB-supporting interventions
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 80 credits / 120 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
Background: Mental health problems are common in the working-age adult population globally leading often to occupational imbalance. The purpose of this scoping review is to summarize which occupational therapy interventions are described in the literature, that are designed to support the occupational balance of adults of working age with stress, depression, or mental ill-health. Further, the purpose is to describe the interventions’ impact on participants' occupational balance viewed through the theoretical lens of Wilcock and Hocking's four aspects of occupation: doing, being, belonging, and becoming.
Method: The scoping review methodology of Arksey and O’Malley has been used for mapping the information about the topic.
Results: Four OB-supporting interventions were found: Redesigning daily occupations (ReDO), Balancing Everyday Life (BEL), Action over inertia (AOI), and Therapeutic gardening program all included the doing, being, belonging, and becoming aspects in their methods, and had promising positive effects to participants lives and occupational balance.
Conclusion: Several occupational balance (OB) -supporting interventions are used in different populations and for different purposes. Wilcock and Hocking’s four aspects of occupation may be used as an overarching theoretical framework to describe OB-supporting methods in Occupational therapy. Future studies will need to find empirical evidence to support this finding.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 33
Keywords [en]
occupational therapy, balanced time-use, health promotion, life balance, mental illness, occupational patterns, scoping review
National Category
Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-55735ISRN: JU-HHJ-ATA-2-20220236OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-55735DiVA, id: diva2:1633297
Subject / course
HHJ, Occupational Therapy
Supervisors
Examiners
2022-02-092022-01-292025-10-13Bibliographically approved