Celebrating Occupational Therapy month

This year, I joined the OT Month Committee at my hospital to see what kind of ideas we could come up with to spread the word about OT. In past years, we had a booth set up near the cafeteria, but few people stopped to look at what was being presented at the booth. Since we wanted to reach out to a larger group of people, we decided to send out an all-user email.

In the email, we talked about how April is occupational therapy month and we had a link to an online quiz inviting people to test their knowledge about occupational therapy. Additionally, we offered a $20 giftcard as an incentive for people to take the quiz.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that a total of 67 people had successfully completed the quiz! There were plenty of wrong answers, but the fact that people took the time to try the quiz shows that we helped spread the word. As an added fun tidbit, one of the questions we asked was for people to name an occupational therapist that they knew. Many people left that last question blank, but it was interesting to see which therapists got mentioned.

Here are the questions from the quiz:

To celebrate Occupational Therapy Month, here is a short quiz to test your knowledge about some of the things occupational therapists do.

1. Occupational therapists address clients holistically and address the cognitive, psychosocial, environmental, spiritual and biophysical aspects of a person’s engagement in activities.

True

False

2. Occupational therapists’ primary role it to help clients obtain jobs.

True

False

3. Occupational therapists evaluate and address areas of self-care, work/productivity and leisure.

True

False

4. ADLs are:

Adapting to Disabled Life

Activities of Daily Living

Accidents During Life

Activities During Life

5. An instrumental activity of daily living would include:

Vacuuming

Meal preparation

Driving

All of the above

6. A hip kit is a package of equipment often issued to patients following hip or back surgeries, who are unable to bend at the waist for many weeks post surgery. Which of the following devices is not included in the hip kit?

Reacher

Sock Aid

Elastic shoe laces

Long-handled shoe horn

Long-handled sponge

7. Occupational therapists work in many areas including acute care, inpatient rehab, outpatient rehab, driving, pediatrics, and the NICU. Name an OT and the department he/she works in.