An Adolescent Concussion Management Toolkit for Occupational Therapists

The aim of this project was to demonstrate the role occupational therapists may serve during concussion recovery, by integrating current research and findings into an instructional resource from an occupational therapy (OT) lens. An OT-based toolkit was created to prioritize the identification, assessment, and treatment of two realms of concussion management: functional cognition and vision. The development of a pre and post survey using a modified version of the Generalized Self-Efficacy (GSE) scale was used to determine occupational therapists’ perceived self-efficacy before and after reviewing the created OT-based toolkit. A related samples Wilcoxon signed rank-test was used to analyze pre and post data. Results demonstrated that when provided with an OT-toolkit, improved in occupational therapists perceived self-efficacy when addressing concussion recovery in adolescents within an outpatient neurological setting. The use of this instructional resource was beneficial in promoting perceived self-efficacy as measured through self-report