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Empowerment and occupational engagement among people with psychiatric disabilities.

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Summary, in English

Abstract Background: Empowerment is essential in the rehabilitation process for people with psychiatric disabilities and knowledge about factors that may play a key role within this process would be valuable for further development of the day centre services. Objective: The present study investigates day centre attendees' perceptions of empowerment. The aim was to investigate which factors show the strongest relationships to empowerment when considering occupational engagement, client satisfaction with day centres, and health-related and socio-demographic factors as correlates. Methods: 123 Swedish day centre attendees participated in a cross-sectional study by completing questionnaires regarding empowerment and the targeted correlates. Data were analysed with non-parametric statistics. Results: Empowerment was shown to be significantly correlated with occupational engagement and client satisfaction and also with self-rated health and symptoms rated by a research assistant. The strongest indicator for belonging to the group with the highest ratings on empowerment was self-rated health, followed by occupational engagement and symptom severity. Implications: Occupational engagement added to the beneficial influence of self-rated health on empowerment. Enabling occupational engagement in meaningful activities and providing occupations that can generate client satisfaction is an important focus for day centres in order to assist the attendees' rehabilitation process so that it promotes empowerment.

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

54-61

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy

Volume

22

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Occupational Therapy

Status

Published

Research group

  • Sustainable occupations and health in a life course perspective
  • Mental Health, Activity and Participation

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1651-2014