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Award Date

5-1-2024

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Occupational Therapy Doctorate

Department

Brain Health

First Committee Member

Donnamarie Krause

Second Committee Member

Jefferson Kinney

Number of Pages

162

Abstract

Health management (HM) is essential to staying healthy. Many parts involve internal abilities, such as the cognitive ability to detect illness internally. However, knowing external sources is equally necessary to perform HM independently, such as knowing how to use health insurance and which healthcare services to use for specific symptoms. As HM is closely related to health and independence, occupational therapy recently expanded the practice by including the occupation of health management.

The International Students and Scholars (ISS) population has been often discouraged from performing parts of HM due to many cultural barriers and differences that exist in HM across countries. However, finding an education session with a holistic view of this occupation has been difficult, and there is a need for universities to provide such information. This capstone project aimed to develop an HM educational session for the ISS population and evaluate its quality using a questionnaire. During the 14-week capstone experience, the educational session was developed, implemented over three weeks, and evaluated using a questionnaire on perceived knowledge (PK), perceived confidence (PC), and quality. With “5” being the highest, each module’s PK mean ranged from 4.4 to 5, PC mean ranged from 4.4 to 5, and quality mean ranged from 4.4 to 4.67. The result indicated that the HM educational session was efficient and beneficial for both ISS and the citizen university community and improved their perception of their HM engagement. However, minimal data was collected due to the capstone project schedule not being consistent with the literature recommendations to provide educational session during orientation. Therefore, future researchers are recommended to test this HM educational session by conducting the session during ISS orientation for further evaluation to measure the effectiveness.

Keywords

health management; health management community program; occupational therapy; occupational therapy lens; program development

Disciplines

Occupational Therapy

File Format

pdf

File Size

19500 KB

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

Rights

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