Future research on professional reasoning in occupational therapy should target information processing, reasoning modalities, methodological quality assessment, and non-English-speaking contexts¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The review's authors issue forward-looking recommendations for the field. They call on occupational therapists "to continue to move beyond the limits established by information-processing models taken from other professions and to explore in more depth the unique and distinctive characteristics of professional reasoning in occupational therapy", noting only 18 papers addressed reasoning modalities and 25 addressed information processing. They further state that assessing the methodological quality and scientific evidence of existing studies is imperative, and that research should encompass more non-English-speaking countries to capture cultural and ethical particularities of professional reasoning.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Studies assessing publication quality and evidence would require methodological quality appraisal, which this scoping review did not perform

Constraints¶

• The identified gaps (information processing, modalities, geographic coverage) are relative to the 303 references captured by this review's search strategy

Target Learners¶

• occupational therapy researchers
• occupational therapy practitioners

Target Learning Goals¶

• deepening understanding of information processing and reasoning modalities unique to occupational therapy

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Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Márquez-Álvarez L.-J., Calvo-Arenillas J.-I., Talavera-Valverde M.-Á., Moruno-Millares P. (2019). Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review. Occupational Therapy International. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/6238245