Intellectual disability (ID) affects a person throughout life and includes difficulties to manage what is expected in everyday life based on age. One difficulty is to create strategies for and solve problems related to everyday occupations. Treatment options with good evidence to enhance occupational performance for persons with ID are limited. The Cognitive Orientation to Daily Occupational Performance (CO-OP) is an approach with good evidence within other diagnostic groups, i.e. adolescents with cerebral palsy. CO-OP has a unique person-centered approach where the person chooses his/her own goals and creates his/her own strategies to reach them. Initial research shows potential for CO-OP with adolescents with ID, although due to scientific flaws there is still a lack of evidence regarding feasibility and effectiveness for adolescents with ID. Based on the results with other diagnostic groups and clinical knowledge and experience, CO-OP can be assumed to be feasible and effective for adolescents with ID and to have a long term effect transferred to everyday life in a way other treatment options do not. The aim of the project is to describe and evaluate CO-OP for adolescents with mild ID. Participants will be adolescents aged 13-17 and their parents. The project is designed as a feasibility study with two qualitative, one quantitative and one mixed method data collection. The quantitative data will be ordinal and nominal data from observational and self-assessment assessments. The mixed methods include comparison between filmed sessions and the CO-OP manual, use of field notes to analyse fidelity and needs for adaptations, and comparison between the CO-OP manual and policy documents. The qualitative outcome will be experiences by the adolescents and perceptions of CO-OP by parents.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
CO-OP is a client-centred, performance-based, problem-solving focused, occupation-focused and occupation-based intervention. In CO-OP the person is guided to use a meta-cognitive strategy to find his or her own strategies for specific activities. The main purpose is to enable meta-cognitive thinking in every day activities, leading to enhanced self-efficacy, occupational performance and independency.
Region Skåne
Kristianstad, Skåne County, Sweden
RECRUITINGRegion Värmland
Karlstad, Värmland County, Sweden
RECRUITINGChange in Canadian Occupational Performance Measure - performance
Self-rated occupational performance in four chosen goal activities, rated 1-10
Time frame: Baseline, up to 4 weeks post intervention and 6 months post intervention
Change in Canadian Occupational Performance Measure - satisfaction
Self-rated satisfaction with performance in four chosen goal activities, rated 1-10
Time frame: Baseline, up to 4 weeks post intervention and 6 months post intervention
Change in Performance Quality Rating Scale - occupational performance quality
Observed performance quality during performing four chosen goal activities thas is filmed and rated 1-10.
Time frame: Baseline, up to 4 weeks post intervention and 6 months post intervention
Change in General Self-Efficacy Scale - self-efficacy
Self-rated self-efficacy, 10 statements rated 1-4.
Time frame: Baseline, up to 4 weeks post intervention and 6 months post intervention
Experiences of CO-OP as a patient - qualitative
Qualitative semi-structured interviews analyzed using qualitative content analysis.
Time frame: Up to 4 weeks post intervention and 6 months post intervention
Perceptions of CO-OP as a parent of a patient - qualitative
Qualitative semi-structured interviews analyzed using phenomenographic analysis
Time frame: Up to 4 weeks post intervention and 6 months post intervention
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