Occupational Therapy and Mental Health

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Assessment Tools

• Role checklist
• Interest checklist
• Disorder spesific outcomes: Such as Montgomery Asberg Depression rating scale, the Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia, the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory or the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale.
• Measurement instruments to assess executive function: Trail Making Test Parts A and B, the Brief Assessment of Cognition in Schizophrenia, the Behavioural Assessment of the Dysexecutive Syndrome, the N-Back Task and the Executive Function Performance Test
• Mini mental state examination
• Health related outcome measures: 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire, the General Health Questionnaire and the Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life.

Interventions

• Psychosocial intervention
• Psychoeducational intervention
• Cognitive intervention
• Exercise intervention

Evidence

According to a scoping review study focused on OT interventions for adults with severe mental illnesses (SMI) including mostly schizophrenia as well as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, it was concluded that psychosocial interventions improved the symptoms of the disease and social and work reintegration; psychoeducational interventions not only improved disease management, but also increased social abilities such as non-verbal techniques, and acquired significant activity such as reading; cognitive interventions improved cognitive functions and processing strategies; exercise interventions compensated cognitive impairment, which is common in psychiatric disorders, and increased the ability of participants to work as a part of a team.