Clinical utility of the Danish version of the Self-Assessment of Modes Questionnaire (D-SAMQ)

Abstract

Background

The the Self-Assessment of Modes Questionnaire (SAMQ) has been translated into Danish and culturally adapted (D-SAMQ), and aspects of validity and reliability have also been evaluated. However, no knowledge about the clinical utility of the D-SAMQ exists.

Aims/objectives

The aims were to investigate the clinical utility of the D-SAMQ among Danish occupational therapists (OTs) and occupational therapy students (OTSs), and to determine differences in perceived clinical utility between the two groups.

Material and methods

Data was collected using an online survey consisting of 17 questions related to four dimensions of clinical utility; appropriateness, accessibility, practicability, and acceptability.

Results

A total of 25 OTs and 41 OTSs participated. The clinical utility was perceived to be high across all questions related to the four dimensions. No statistically significant differences were found between OTs and OTSs in any of the four dimensions.

Conclusions and significance

The D-SAMQ is ready for use in occupational therapy practice, education, and research. D-SAMQ can be used to gain insight into own therapeutic style. This insight serves as a basis for facilitating therapeutic relationships with the clients during the process of enabling engagement in occupation.

Keywords:

• Client-therapist relationship
• instrument
• occupational therapy
• the intentional relationship model
• therapeutic rapport
• therapeutic style

Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the OTs and the OTSs who participated in the study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Danish Association of Occupational Therapists under Grant FF1-18-R76-A1706 and the OAK Foundation under Grant OCAY-13-309.