The occupational impact of bowel cancer: Survivors' voices and advancing the role of occupational therapy assessment and intervention.
Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the occupational impact (i.e., how engagement in occupation is affected) of having had bowel cancer and the role of occupational therapy with bowel cancer survivors and their significant others. Methods: Two rounds of semi‐structured interviews...
| Published in: | Australian Occupational Therapy Journal Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 117 - 129 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2022
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