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Occupations and balance during the transition to motherhood with a lifetime chronic illness: A scoping review examining ...

Published in Australian occupational therapy journal

Throughout the transition to motherhood, changes are experienced across a woman's physical, mental, social, and occupational self. Maternal chronic illness adds the complexity of increased healthcare needs and navigating a high-risk, medicalised pregnancy, birth, and post-natal period. Literature concerning motherhood transitions in chronic illness...

Employment and workdays lost among spouses of cancer survivors: Intersection with gender across cancer treatment status....

Published in Cancer

Cancer patients and survivors have high care needs, often provided by a spouse or partner. The purpose of this study was to elucidate how employment and work loss patterns differed across cancer history/treatment status and gender. Using nationally representative data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2011, 2016, and 2017), the authors lin...

The Effects of Occupational Complexity on Late Life Cognition in ACTIVE: Examining the Mediating and Moderating Effects ...

Published in Journal of aging and health

Objectives: This article sought to determine (1) whether occupational complexity (OC) explains individual differences in cognition at baseline, (2) whether this relationship is differentially related to cognition by Black/White race, and (3) whether OC mediates some or all of the Black/White race-related variance in late life cognition. Methods: 23...

Environmental sustainability: An exploratory study of the perceived knowledge, attitudes, and skills of occupational the...

Published in Australian occupational therapy journal

The threat of climate change to the health and wellbeing of the Australian population is well documented. Literature is emerging to support the role of occupational therapy in environmental sustainability. To date, the perspectives of occupational therapists practicing in Australia are yet to be explored. This study aimed to explore these perspecti...

Occupational differences in mortality and life expectancy persist after retirement and throughout life.

Published in Scandinavian journal of public health

There are substantial differences in remaining life expectancy at higher ages between occupational groups. These differences may be the effect of work-related exposures, lifestyle factors of workers in specific occupations, socioeconomic position or a combination of this. The scope of this paper is the extent to which occupational differences in re...

Is an elevated family-genetic risk for major psychiatric disorders specific to creative occupations?

Published in Psychological medicine

Despite a large descriptive literature linking creativity and risk for psychiatric illness, the magnitude and specificity of this relationship remain controversial. We examined, in 1 137 354 native Swedes with one of 59 3-digit official and objective occupational codes in managerial and educated classes, their familial genetic risk score (FGRS) for...

The "Managing Fatigue" programme - Experiences shared by MS participants.

Published in Scandinavian journal of occupational therapy

The "Managing Fatigue" (MF) programme can help people living with Multiple sclerosis (MS) manage fatigue in their everyday lives. The programme has been proven feasible with Swedish occupational therapists, but there is a lack of knowledge of how MS participants experience the programme, and what they learned from participating in the programme. To...

Comment entrer dans les temporalités d'occupation des sites ornés ? Fuliginochronologie et datations croisées à la grott...

Aujourd’hui, les progrès techniques et l’étude d’archives telles que les spéléothèmes (stalactites, stalagmites, encroûtements pariétaux, etc.) offrent l’accès à de nouvelles données temporelles pour documenter les dynamiques d’occupation sur les sites archéologiques, et pour discuter de mobilité et de migrations avec des temporalités fines.En effe...