Context: Physical and occupational therapists fail to involve patients to the optimal extent possible during the concerns clarification and goal setting process. Objective: Can training physical and occupational therapists in the Ozer Payton Nelson Model improve their ability to seek patient participation in the concerns clarification and goal setting process? Design: Quasi-experimental pretest-posttest one-shot own control group. Setting: Home health and skilled nursing facilities environments. Patients or Other Participants: Thirty-five emplyees of a subcontract company were approached to participate in the study. Convenience sampling was used. Twenty-four subjects completed all phases of study. Inclusion criteria of subjects: full time or part time employees of company, all speak English as their primary language, all have a license to practice in Illnois. Intervention: Treatment Planning for Rehabilitation: A Patient-Centered Approach. Not diagnosis dependent and can be used for physical and occupational therapists. Five 90-minute time spaced experiential training sessions conducted by researcher. Outcome: A twenty-three criterion-based assessment tool that measures the ability of therapists to seek patient participation in concerns clarification and goal setting process. Results: Ten criteria items demonstrated statistically significant differences in frequencies from pretest to posttest scoring. Conclusion: The study validates the premise that the Ozer Payton Nelson Model can have a positive effect on ten of the critical skill dimensions that therapists need in order to effectively involve patients in a higher level of patient participation within three weeks post training.
