OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Opportunities and barriers for occupational engagement among residents in supported housing	36
Occupational therapy in overweight and obesity care: Australian perspectives from a mixed methods study	33
Lifestyle Redesign^®with independent living older adults in countries other than the USA	26
Information and communication technology in home-based rehabilitation – a discussion of possibilities and challenges	22
Hippotherapy concepts: A scoping review to inform transdisciplinary practice guidelines	18
The use and value of play: Perspectives from the continent of Africa – a scoping review	17
A survey of research involvement and priorities among occupational therapists in Norway	16
A scoping review exploring occupation-based research on trauma: A colour palette to paint richer horizons	16
Exploring the life contexts of patrolling police officers in the European Union – A scoping review	15
Occupational therapy in the space of artificial intelligence: Ethical considerations and human-centered efforts	12
Validity and reliability of the Turkish Occupational Balance Questionnaire (OBQ11-T) in mental health	12
Learning occupational therapy practice using standardised patients in a practical examination – experiences of students and teachers	11
Maintaining autonomy: How older persons with chronic conditions and their significant others interpret, navigate, and overcome everyday difficulties	11
Work conditions as predictors of Swedish occupational therapists’ occupational balance	11
Bridging the transition from homelessness: Developing an occupational therapy framework	11
Feasibility of using the Cognitive Orientation to daily Occupational Performance in a population of Danish stroke survivors: Adaptation and study protocol	10
Relationships between motor skills and executive functions in developmental coordination disorder (DCD): A systematic review	10
Occupational performance and prioritized problematic everyday occupations among people with advanced cancer living alone versus living with someone	10
‘It’s like someone is holding your hand, an invisible hand’: A grounded theory study of participation and personal recovery in Flexible Assertive Community Treatment	10
Daily life coping—Helping stress-afflicted people manage everyday activities	9
Occupational balance as a component in weight loss interventions	9
Dance for Parkinson, multifaceted experiences of persons living with Parkinson’s Disease	7
Icelandic translation, adaptation and validation of the Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA-IS)	7
Clinical utility of the Danish version of the Self-Assessment of Modes Questionnaire (D-SAMQ)	7
Occupational therapy for people with Parkinson’s disease in Israel: A SWOT analysis	7

Practice educators’ emphasis on research in supervision of occupational therapy students	7
Cognitive impairment in daily life (CID): A double-faced instrument to detect changes and impairments in activities of daily living for people with suspected cognitive impairment	7
Occupational adaptation as a social process for dementia care teams	7
Potential roles of occupational therapists in urban planning for age-friendly environments: A Q-methodology	7
Initial validation of the powered mobility device autonomy residential screen (PoMoDARS)	6
Perspectives on residential involvement and engagement in everyday life–a qualitative study	6
Enabling social participation for older people: The content of reablement by age, gender, and level of functioning in occupational therapists’ interventions	6
“No miracle cure” interface evaluation of a UK suicide prevention app in a Norwegian context	6
Changes in daily life and wellbeing in adults, 70 years and older, in the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Can the internet based intervention ‘strategies for empowering activities in everyday life’ support people with cognitive difficulties to self-manage digital work and everyday life?	6
Evaluation of a driving clinical decision pathway for generalist occupational therapists: Pilot test of practice change	6
Cognitive interviews on the Swedish occupational balance questionnaire	6
Comparison of goals set by people with multiple sclerosis during two fatigue management interventions	6
Systematic review: Need for high-quality research on occupational therapy for children with intellectual disability	5
Study approaches mediate associations between learning environment and academic performance	5
Ambitions and obstacles for evidence-based municipal primary healthcare – a mixed- methods study	5
Pre-vocational therapy in mental health. Clients' desired and achieved productivity status	5
Understanding professional identity in occupational therapy: A scoping review	5
Reliability of FUNDES-Child-SE - measuring participation and independence of children and youths with disabilities	5
Driving practice effects for older drivers with mild cognitive impairment: A preliminary study	5
Case study research: Building the occupational therapy evidence base one case at a time	5
Cost-effectiveness of occupational therapy return-to-work interventions for people with mental health disorders: A systematic review	5
Self-initiated management approaches in everyday occupations used by people with acquired cognitive impairment	5
Occupational experiences and their importance for young peoples’ mental health	4
Validity and reliability of the Occupational Experience Profile	4
Mapping intervention practices in social occupational therapy in Brazil	4
Occupational multi-level responsiveness: Describing the skills used by occupational therapists working with children seeking asylum in Australia	4
Nineteen years of constraint-induced movement therapy: A practice-based, retrospective, observational study	4
Older adults’ experiences of maintaining social participation: Creating opportunities and striving to adapt to changing situations	4
Life contexts among patrolling police officers in the European Union, investigating environmental characteristics and health – A protocol for a scoping review and a systematic review	4
Facing symptoms and limitations: A qualitative study of women with carpal tunnel syndrome	4
Transitioning from an occupational therapy student to a clinically competent occupational therapist – A qualitative study	4
Self-initiated management strategies in digitalized work and everyday life – experiences of people with cognitive difficulties due to neurological disorders	4
Construct validity of the simplified Chinese version of the instrument ‘Picture My Participation’	4
What matters to you? A mixed-method evaluation of goal setting and attainment within reablement from a client perspective	4
Transition back to work after mild TBI: A qualitative study	4
Menstrual hygiene management strategies used by women who are blind or have low vision	4
Adapting the preschool environment to the needs of children on the autism spectrum in Sweden: A quasi-experimental study	3
Danish translation, adaptation and initial validation of the clinical assessment of modes questionnaires	3
Exploring return to work barriers through the lens of model of human occupation. The NOW WHAT project	3
Occupational therapy and stress-related exhaustion – a scoping review	3
Personal factors, participation, and satisfaction post-stroke: A qualitative exploration	3
The role of a socially assistive robot in enabling older adults with mild cognitive impairment to cope with the measures of the COVID-19 lockdown: A qualitative study	3
A call to resist occupational therapy’s promotion of ableism	3
Clinical reasoning of occupational therapists in selecting activities together with older adults with dementia to postpone further development of cognitive decline	3
Occupational value outcomes among people with mental health issues participating in activity-based interventions – The importance of internal and external factors	3
A scoping review on occupational science research in European contexts	3
Environmental barriers and housing accessibility problems for people with Parkinson’s disease: A three-year perspective	3
Handling fatigue in everyday activities at five years after stroke: A long and demanding process	3
Occupational therapy students’ experiences and perceptions of journal club participation	3

Evaluation of the group intervention “Let’s Get Organized” for improving time management, organisational, and planning skills in people with mild intellectual disability	3
Examining components of community psychosocial stroke interventions using concept mapping	3
Development and usability of an app-based instrument of participation in children with disabilities	3
Does the self-reported playfulness of older adults influence their wellbeing? An exploratory study	3
Ageing in the right place—usability of a web-based housing counselling service	3
Occupational changes during the COVID-19 lockdown in Jordan	2
The influence on daily occupations of Danish adolescents experiencing stress	2
Mindfulness and therapeutic relationships: A phenomenological inquiry into paediatric occupational therapists’ practices	2
Occupational therapists’ experiences of intra-professional collaboration during the discharge process from inpatient care to home healthcare	2
Occupational therapists’ experiences of using a new internet-based intervention - a focus group study	2
Exploring communication in families affected by parental chronic pain: An occupational perspective	2
Mitigating the effects of climate change in children’s outdoor play environments	2
A more active parenting after attending Let’s Get Organized – Experiences of parents with ADHD	2
Experiences of occupational therapists within an ACT-based interdisciplinary pain management program	2
Use of information and communication technology in occupational therapy for older adults	2
Targeting the school environment to enable participation: A scoping review	2
Content validity of the instrument ‘Picture My Participation’ for measuring participation of children with and without autism spectrum disorder in mainland China	2
Recovery experiences among mental health service users going through the Balancing Everyday Life ^™ intervention – A deductive qualitative study	2
Walking, talking, playing: Children with disabilities’ outdoor play in French mainstream schools	2
Occupational therapy’s contributions to combating climate change and lifestyle diseases	2
Perceptions of unilluminated occupations a survey of Danish occupational therapists	2
Canadian Occupational Performance Measure the state of the art – a review	2
Association between parent-proxy-reported and child-self-reported perceptions of children’s motor competence and children’s performance-based motor skill abilities	2
Beyond conventional healthcare for mental health problems: Experiences of existential group conversations	2
Education leads to increased adherence to the ‘Australian Competency Standards for Occupational Therapy Driver Assessors’	2
The relevance of employing a three-perspective view on occupational balance among people with depression and/or anxiety disorders	2
Phronesis: Recognising a neglected dimension of knowledge within occupational therapy research	2
Defining the complexities of an occupational pattern—A concept analysis and theoretical validation	2
Establishing the measurement properties of the Residential Environment Impact Scale (Version 4.0)	2
How context influences person-centred practice: A critical-creative case study examining the use of research evidence in occupational therapy with people living with dementia	2
‘Finding the play’ – exploring with occupational therapists practice possibilities in the context of Irish schoolyards	1
Exploring two subdimensions of participation, involvement and engagement: A scoping review	1
Representations of parenting autistic children: A critical interpretive synthesis	1
Occupational gaps reported by proxies for persons with dementia residing in a nursing home	1
How chronic pain changes a person’s life story in relation to participation in occupational roles: A narrative exploration	1
Making choices in digital play spaces: Children’s experiences	1
Relationship between engagement in meaningful activities, self-efficacy, and quality of life in healthy young adults: An exploratory study	1
A systematic review of lifestyle and health among patrolling police officers	1
Reliability and validity of the Danish version of the Self-Assessment of Modes Questionnaire	1
The impact of the BEL intervention on levels of motivation, engagement and recovery in people who attend community mental health services	1
Mental health service users’ experiences of everyday occupations while attending day centres during the transition into retirement age	1
Exploring occupation-based practice among occupational therapists in hospitals and rehabilitation institutions	1
Leisure and social occupational choice within nursing home facilities in Ireland: Residents perspectives	1
Stroke rehabilitation adaptive approaches: A theory-focused scoping review	1
Experiences with continuous quality improvement work based on the Occupational Therapy Intervention Process Model	1
Critiquing representations of intellectual disability in occupation-based literature	1
How a group-based occupational therapy program works in woman with fibromyalgia: A process evaluation of the ADAPT program	1
Turkish version of life balance inventory: Validity, reliability, and cultural adaptation study	1
Experiences of a digital group intervention ‘the health web’: a case study of older adults	1
Creative activities as intervention – Exploring occupational therapists’ narrative reasoning	1
Effectiveness of the PRPP Intervention after brain injury in home-based rehabilitation: Single-case experimental designs with multiple baselines	1
Participation of children with long-term health conditions compared to that of healthy peers: A cross-sectional comparative study	1
Assessment of motor and process skills in Danish occupational therapy practice	1
Defining the future of occupational therapy: A concept analysis of leadership development	1
Correction	1
Considering the home environment and planning for the future: A qualitative exploration of the views of older adults and individuals with older relatives	1
Effect evaluation of a vocational rehabilitation program for young adults with chronic physical conditions at risk for unemployment: A controlled clinical trial	1
Professional identity development of Flemish occupational therapists: A narrative study	1
The ‘Young Adult Taking Action’ programme for young adult cancer survivors: A study protocol for a feasibility study	1
Adolescent participation characteristics: Development and initial psychometric properties of the adolescents participation questionnaire	1