One-year follow-up after the time management group intervention Let’s Get Organized

Abstract

Background

Time management skills are essential to maintain occupations in everyday life. People with neurodevelopmental or mental disorders often experience persistent difficulties with managing time and organizing daily life, consequently, there is a need to establish interventions with sustainable results.

Aim

The aim was to perform a one-year post-intervention follow-up after the intervention Let’s Get Organized (LGO-S) for people with neurodevelopmental or mental disorders.

Methods

The study is a one-year follow-up of a single group pre-test–post-test design. Thirty-eight persons with difficulties in time management due to neurodevelopmental or mental disorders participated. Instruments to collect data were Assessment of Time Management Skills; Weekly Calendar Planning Activity and the Satisfaction with Daily Occupations instrument. Wilcoxons’s signed-rank test was used to compare data over time.

Results

There were no significant differences in the participants’ outcomes between post-intervention and one-year follow-up in time management skills and regulation of emotions, satisfaction with daily occupations, and global satisfaction. A significant improvement could be seen in the subscale organization and planning at the one-year follow-up compared to post-intervention.

Conclusions

Improvements in time management skills, organization, and planning, regulation of emotions, and satisfaction with daily occupations after the LGO-S can be maintained in the long term.

Keywords:

• ADHD
• ASD
• adults
• long-term follow-up
• mental disorders
• neurodevelopmental disorders
• occupational therapy

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank all the participants who took part in this study. We also thank the occupational therapists who contributed to the data collection.

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

Additional information

Funding

The study was financially supported by the Centre for Clinical Research Dalarna, Falun, the Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, the Regional Research Council in the Uppsala-Örebro Region, and the Research Committee in Region Örebro County.