Affiliations: Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences,
Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala and the Rehabilitation Medicine
Clinic, Karolinska hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Note: [] Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Caring
Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala Science Park, S-751 83 Uppsala, Sweden.
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Abstract: {\it Objectives.} This study examines the construct validity of the
theory Satisfaction with time-delimited daily occupations (STO). The outcome of
STO concerns how individuals perceive their occupational health status and to
what degree the individuals experience satisfaction with their performance of
time-delimited daily occupations. {\it Design.} The ``known-groups technique'' was used for
discriminating the occupational health status among four groups (n = 147) of
full-time workers or sick-listed participants. A mailed ActivityLog-sheet was
used for recording their occupational health 24 times during 24 hours. The
computerized program ActivityLog was used for data registration. The data
analysis were accounted by ANOVA, Tukey's HSD test with significance level of p
< 0,05 using the SPSS program. {\it Results.} The occupational health status did not differ
significantly among the four groups, but the number of records concerning work
(p = 0,00) and care (p = 0,02) time-delimited daily occupations were
significantly different. The patterns of occupational health status during the
24-hour-records were visually separated for the four groups. {\it Conclusion.} There is need for refining the STO theory and then
for undertaking further investigations of the STO construct validity.
Keywords: health, occupation, occupational therapy, sick-listed, satisfaction with time-delimited occupations, theory validation
