the information needs of occupational therapy students - jane morgan daniel
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Jane Morgan-Daniel@JMorganDaniel
The Information Needs of Occupational Therapy Students: A Case Study
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Choosing the topic
What is an OT?
Methodology
Data collection
Data analysis
Findings
Lessons learned
Overview
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Why information needs?
- What users say they need vs what we think they need
- Meeting users’ changing expectations
- User-oriented & evidence- based service development
- Innovative responses to internal & external change
Choosing the topic…
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Why OT students?
- Personal & professional connection to the topic
- Occupational Therapy is a relatively new profession
- 31 British universities now offer OT degree courses
- Increased government support for student OTs
- Literature gap
Choosing the topic…
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Final research question
What are the information needs of Occupational
Therapy students and how do these needs
contribute to library use and non-use?
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What’s an Occupational Therapist?
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Research objectives
Ascertain OT students’ motivators for information-seeking
Determine which information sources are used and why
Establish the barriers inhibiting the satisfaction of information needs
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MethodologySystems theory
- Meaning can be objectively determined
- An information need is a rational decision that a piece of information is required to solve a problem
- Information needs are best met through efficient Information Retrieval systems
Which research tradition?
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MethodologyUser-centred
- Meaning is influenced by personality, demographic background & occupation
- An information need is subjective & contextual
- Information needs are best met through understanding users’ perceptions of reality within a specific setting
Which research tradition?
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MethodologyCase study
- In depth exploration of local perceptions
- Intensive examination of contextual relationships between the occupational environment & students’ information needs
- Detection of associative patterns
Research strategy
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Methodology- Non-probability purposive
sampling
- Inclusion criteria: location, profession, specialisation, career stage, pattern of learning
- Key informant encouraged faculty collaboration
- One institutional case
- Final sample of 27 students
Sampling procedure
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Methodology Research design
Mixed methods
Qualitative- Examination of perceptions,
opinions & attitudes
- Unanticipated themes arose inductively
Quantitative- Illuminated patterns within
the qualitative data
- Enabled theory-building
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Data collection- Self-completion questionnaire
- Open and closed questions
- Administered via email by a faculty member
- Questionnaires were returned as an email attachment
- Data was copied into Excel and anonymised
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What information services would your ideal library
provide?
How do you evaluate whether research evidence
is useful for a specific patient case?
While on placement, what clinical tasks prompt you to
look for information?
While on placement, what non-clinical tasks prompt
you to look for information?
Open questions
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On placement, have you looked for information to
help with…
When writing academic assignments, have you looked for information to
help with…
On placement, who are you likely to approach with a question about patient
care…
Closed questions
When researching a clinical question, do you use any of
the followingpoint-of-care tools…
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Data analysis
Thematic analysis (qualitative data)
Non-parametric descriptive analysis (quantitative data)
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FindingsObjective oneAcademic assignments, EBP, developing workplace skills
Objective twoClinical colleagues, textbooks, search engines, e-journals, bibliographic databases
Objective threeTraining gaps, no awareness, librarians’ limited knowledge of OT, perceived inaccessibility & unavailability of resources
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Recommendations
- Increase awareness of Occupational Therapy as a distinct profession
- Extend library opening hours- Offer regular user training- Improve availability &
accessibility of OT related print & e-resources
- Targeted publicity of relevant library services & resources
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Lessons learned
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Information needs case studies are a manageable, useful and enjoyable topic for a dissertation.