Admission Exams 2024-2025

According to the decision number 10/17-04-2024 of the Department Assembly of the Department of Occupational Therapy, the courses and syllabus for the entrance exams for the academic year 2024-2025 are announced on the current website of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Western Attica.

Interested parties should complete the Application Form attached at the end of the website and submit it electronically along with the required documentation to [email address or online submission platform].

For more information, please visit the Department of Occupational Therapy website or contact the Department’s administrative office.

ergothe@uniwa.gr Subject: Entrance Exams: Application [Full Name of Applicant]

Information available at the following phone numbers: 210 538 7465,  210 538 7467

Contact Hours 8:00 -15:00

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. Who is eligible to participate?

Eligibility to participate in the entrance exams for the Department of Occupational Therapy is granted to graduates of Universities, TEI (Technological Educational Institutes), ASPAITE (School of Pedagogical and Technological Education), or equivalent institutions of higher education in Greece or abroad (recognized by the ΔΟΑΤΑΠ).

2.What are the required documents?

a) Copy of the degree or certificate of completion of studies.

For graduates from abroad, the following must also be submitted:

a1) Recognition certificate of the equivalence of their degree from the competent authority.(ΔΟΑΤΑΠ)

a2) Accompanied by an official translation of the degree into Greek.

b) Photocopy of ID card or passport.

c) Application form for the entrance exams, completed and signed (available at the end of the website).

3.What is the deadline for submitting applications?

Applications, along with the required documents for participation in the entrance exams, should be submitted electronically from November 1 to November 15 of each academic year.

4. When will the entrance exams take place?

The exams will be held between December 1 and December 20, 2023. Exact dates and times will be announced after the application period ends.

ΤΑ ΤΡΙΑ ΕΞΕΤΑΖΟΜΕΝΑ ΜΑΘΗΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΥΛΗ  ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑΤΑΚΤΗΡΙΩΝ ΕΞΕΤΑΣΕΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ ΕΡΓΟΘΕΡΑΠΕΙΑΣ

Introduction to Occupational Therapy

Course Material for Entrance Exams:

1. Introduction to the basic concepts and field of interest in Occupational Therapy.
2. Presentation of the principles governing occupational therapy practice.
3. Historical overview of the evolution of the concept of “occupation” in Occupational Therapy.
4. Presentation of organizations representing Occupational Therapy at the global, European, and national levels.
5. Applications of Occupational Therapy and the roles assumed by occupational therapists.
6. Introduction to the creation and development of the profession, its science, and international and national education.
7. Terminology issues.
8. Areas of occupation and classifications.
9. Meaning of occupation and theoretical approaches.
10. Introduction to human occupation, its significance for health, identity, and well-being, areas of occupation, influencing factors, and the science of occupation.
11. Occupations throughout the human life span.
12. Activity analysis and occupation analysis.
13. Grading and adaptation of occupations.
14. Introduction to the types of theories supporting occupational therapy practice.
15. Overview of essential professional skills for occupational therapists.
16. Introduction to the philosophical framework of Occupational Therapy (ontology, epistemology, specialty evaluation).
17. Description of the field (occupations, performance skills, individual factors, performance patterns, environment) and process of occupational therapy practice (assessment, intervention planning, intervention, evaluation of therapeutic outcomes).

Suggested bibliography

1. Βιβλίο – Σύγγραμμα: ‘Εργο και Δραστηριότητα – Η προσέγγιση της Εργοθεραπείας

Συγγραφέας: Μαρία Γ. Κουλουμπή

Εκδόσεις: Κωνσταντάρας – Ιατρικές Εκδόσεις

2. Σημειώσεις: Βασικές Αρχές Εργοθεραπείας (υπό έκδοση, αποκλειστική on line διάθεση από το Τμήμα Εργοθεραπείας ΠαΔΑ  – Διαθέσιμες ΕΔΩ)

Συγγραφέας: Μαριάννα Μοροζίνη

Research Methodology in Occupational Therapy

Course Material for Entrance Exams:

“Principles of Research”

1. Review of published and unpublished literature.
2. Systematic literature reviews.
3. Meta-analyses.
4. Accuracy.
5. Objectives, purposes, and hypotheses.
6. Concepts and theories.
7. Research proposals.
8. Research design and research methods.
9. Selection of measurement tools.
10. Data levels and statistical techniques.
11. Reliability and validity.
12. Ethics and Bioethics Committees.
13. Dissemination.

“Sample Size and Sampling for Quantitative Research”

1. Calculation of sample size, statistical significance, and sampling.

– The sampling unit.
– Calculation of sample size and statistical power.
– Hypothesis testing, statistical significance, and the null hypothesis.
– Type I and Type II errors.
– One-tailed and two-tailed hypothesis tests.
– Statistical, social, and clinical significance.
– Sampling frames.
– Sampling.
– Confidence intervals and normal distribution.
– External validity of sample results.

Sampling Methods

1. Random sampling.
2. Non-random sampling: criterion or quota sampling.
3. Sampling for qualitative research.
4. Sampling for telephone interviews.

Quantitative Research: Surveys

1. Survey methods.

– The survey research.
– Descriptive and analytical surveys.
– Retrospective (ex post facto), cross-sectional surveys.
– Prospective, longitudinal surveys.
– Cross-sectional and longitudinal cohort studies.
– Triangulated research methods and surveys.

2. Methods of change analysis in longitudinal studies.

– Change analysis.
– Sample reduction and change analysis.
– Stopping rules and analysis of interim results.

Quantitative Research: Experiments and Other Analytical Study Methods

1. The experimental method.

– Internal and external validity of systematic errors in participants and research team.
– Blinded experiments.
– Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in healthcare evaluation.
– Pre-post study with a non-randomized control group.
– Post-only study with a non-randomized control group.
– Time-series studies using different samples (historical controls).
– Geographic comparisons.
– Individuals acting as their own controls.
– Controlled within-subjects study.
– Threats to validity of causal inferences in other analytical studies.

2. Sampling selection and group work methods in experiments and other analytical methods.

– Random sampling.
– Convenience sampling and purposive sampling.
– Ensuring similarity in group characteristics: random assignment.

3. Data collection methods in quantitative research: questionnaires, interviews, and their response rates.

– Structured and semi-structured questionnaires.
– Mail and self-administered questionnaires.
– Structured and semi-structured interviews.
– Non-response.
– Non-response to individual questions.

Questionnaire Design

1. Pilot testing.
2. Layout of the questionnaire.
3. Format, order, and wording of questions.
4. Attitude measurement scales.
5. Rules for order and wording.
6. Rules for questions by topic type.
7. Checking the accuracy of responses.
8. Translation of tools and cultural equivalence.

Types of Interviews:

1. Structured Interviews
2. Semi-Structured Interviews
3. Unstructured Interviews

Motivating Participants to Respond

Rules for Structured Interviews

Interview Techniques

Recommended Reading

1.  Βιβλίο – Σύγγραμμα: Μεθοδολογία Έρευνας στην Υγεία

Συγγραφέας: Ann Bowling

Εκδόσεις: BROKEN HILL PUBLISHERS LTD

2. Βιβλίο – Σύγγραμμα: Μεθοδολογία Έρευνας στο χώρο της υγείας

Συγγραφέας: Χριστίνα Δαρβίρη

Εκδόσεις: BROKEN HILL PUBLISHERS LTD

3. Clinical Reasoning in Occupational Therapy

   Course Content for Entrance Examinations:

   – Definition of the concept and process of Clinical Reasoning
   – Models of clinical/professional reasoning
   – Clinical reasoning and decision-making
   – Knowledge contributing to the occupational therapist’s clinical reasoning: scientific, empirical, personal
   – The concept, process, and importance of reflective practice in clinical reasoning
   – Models of reflection
   – Cognitive processes involved when therapists reason: information processing model, hypothesis generation, pattern recognition, heuristics
   – Types of clinical reasoning: Scientific (diagnostic, procedural), Narrative, Interactive, Pragmatic, Ethical, Dependent
   – Levels and ways of developing clinical reasoning (development/organization of knowledge, reflection)
   – Conclusions about various types of clinical reasoning (focus of interest, recognizable elements, questions)

    

   Recommended Reading

   Βιβλίο – Σύγγραμμα: Η Κλινική Συλλογιστική και η ανάπτυξή της στην Εργοθεραπεία.

Συγγραφέας: Μαριάννα Μοροζίνη

Εκδόσεις: Κωνσταντάρας – Ιατρικές Εκδόσεις