title: Association between satisfaction and participation in everyday occupations after stroke.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Within occupational therapy, it is assumed that individuals are satisfied when participating in everyday occupations that they want to do. However, there is little empirical evidence to show this.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study is to explore and describe the relation between satisfaction and participation in everyday occupations in a Swedish cohort, 5 years post stroke.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty-nine persons responded to the Occupational Gaps Questionnaire (OGQ). The questionnaire measures subjective restrictions in participation, i.e. the discrepancy between doing and wanting to do 30 different occupations in everyday life, and satisfaction per activity. Results were analysed with McNemar/chi-square.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Seventy percent of the persons perceived participation restrictions. Individuals that did not perceive restrictions in their participation had a significantly higher level of satisfaction (p = .002) compared to those that had restrictions. Participants that performed activities that they wanted to do report between 79 and 100% satisfaction per activity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this cohort, there was a significant association between satisfaction and participating in everyday occupations one wants to do, showing that satisfaction is an important aspect of participation and substantiates a basic assumption within occupational therapy. The complexity of measuring satisfaction and participation in everyday occupations is discussed.
authors: a Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Division of Occupational Therapy , Karolinska Institutet , Huddinge , Sweden.
authors: Aileen
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7091-7514
authors: A
authors: Bergström
authors: a Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Division of Occupational Therapy , Karolinska Institutet , Huddinge , Sweden.
authors: Susanne
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6878-6394
authors: S
authors: Guidetti
authors: a Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Division of Occupational Therapy , Karolinska Institutet , Huddinge , Sweden.
authors: Kerstin
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7025-5226
authors: K
authors: Tham
authors: a Department of Neurobiology, Care Science and Society, Division of Occupational Therapy , Karolinska Institutet , Huddinge , Sweden.|b Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation Medicine , Uppsala University , Uppsala , Sweden.
authors: Gunilla
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5308-4821
authors: G
authors: Eriksson
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D058992:Social Participation; D000071939:Stroke Rehabilitation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden
keywords: Activities of daily living; Sweden; checklist; follow-up studies; occupational therapy; occupations; outcome assessment (health care); personal satisfaction; surveys and questionnaires