Cara Maddison Specialist Occupational Therapist How meaningful is an occupational focused outcome measure to young people accessing occupational therapy group work in a Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service Cara Maddison Specialist Occupational Therapist Cara.Maddison@lecispart.nhs.uk Professor Susan Corr

Background Mental health problems affect (Green et al 2004) Need to build up EVIDENCE BASE (Doh 2015) Outcome measures = Tool to do this (Unsworth 2011) Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) (Law et al 2005)

Literature review Outcome measures need to be BENIFICIAL & MEANINGFUL (Fuller 2011) Previous Research focused on; - Therapist view of COPM - Service users views Sparse - No Studies young people in CAMHS

MEANINGFUL & USEFUL to therapeutic Process Aims of project Understand how MEANINGFUL & USEFUL to therapeutic Process VOICE I think.. And if and where changes needed to be made.

Semi Structured interviews METHODOLOGY Qualitative approach Purposive Sample Semi Structured interviews 5 young people Thematic Analysis

Results COPM Process New & Unfamiliar Initial reservations ↓ Goal setting experience Purpose & Direction Personal achievement Resilience

Conclusion / Implications COPM – Valued & Positive Experience to other groups Systematic approach Demonstrate effectiveness Informed goal setting ↑

Thank you for listening Some questions ? Contact details Cara Maddison Specialist Occupational Therapist Cara.Maddison@leicspart.nhs.uk 07818454624 /0116 2952971

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