The Occupational Questionnaire is a comprehensive tool designed to capture a detailed picture of an individual's daily activities, spanning the range of work, personal care, recreation, and rest. Crafted by N. Riopel Smith with the collaboration of G. Kielhofner and J. Hawkins Watts in 1986, this instrument asks individuals to meticulously record their typical activities over recent weeks, specifying what they do in half-hour increments throughout a standard weekday. Beyond merely listing activities, respondents are prompted to evaluate each task in terms of its nature, their performance, its importance to them, and the enjoyment it brings. This evaluation is not limited to paid work but extends to include unpaid productive activities that benefit others, such as volunteering, and encompasses essential self-care tasks, leisure, and periods of rest. By encouraging individuals to engage deeply with these considerations, the questionnaire serves not only as a reflection of one's activity patterns but also opens a window into their values, abilities, and satisfaction with various aspects of their daily life. Additionally, this tool's bibliography underscores its foundational role in various research studies, highlighting its utility in analyzing occupational function and dysfunction across diverse populations, thereby offering crucial insights into the connections between how people spend their time and their overall life satisfaction.
Question | Answer |
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Form Name | Occupational Questionnaire Form |
Form Length | 4 pages |
Fillable? | Yes |
Fillable fields | 5 |
Avg. time to fill out | 2 min |
Other names | the occupational questionnaire, maternal occupational status sample questionaire, occupational questionnaire kielhofner, occupational questionnaire |
OCCUPATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE
Developed by N. Riopel Smith with assistance from G. Kielhofner and J. Hawkins Watts (1986).1
INSTRUCTIONS:
In this questionnaire youwill be asked to record your usual daily activities, and to answer some questions about these activities.
PART ONE:
Please think about how you have been spendingyour days the past few weeks. Try to decide what you do on a usual weekday (Monday - Friday). Usingthe worksheet that begins below, recordyour activities from the time you wake up. Each row represents a half hour. For each half hour record the main activity that you wouldbe doing during that half hour. An activity can be anythingfrom talking to a friend, to cooking, to bathing. If you do an activity for longer than a half hour, write it down again for as long as you continue to do that activity.
PART TWO:
After you have listed your activities, answer all four of the questions for each activity by circling the number of the most appropriate answer. Notice that the questions ask you to consider whether your activities are work, daily living tasks, recreation, or rest, andto consider how well you do the activities, how important they are to you, and howmuch you enjoy them. In the first question, work does not necessarily mean that youare paidfor the activity. Work can include productive activities that are useful to other people, like volunteering at a hospital. Daily living tasks are activities that are related to your own self care, such as housekeeping andshopping. Rest includes taking a nap and not doing anythingin particular. Even if a question does not seem appropriate for some of your activities, please try to respond to each one as accurately as possible. Your answers to every question are important!
1This instrument was first published in: Smith, N.R., Kielhofner, G., & Watts, J.H. (1986). The relationships between volition, activity pattern, and life satisfaction in the elderly. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 40,
B:\OCCQUES\OCCUQUES.TAB\November 16, 1993\March 7, 2004
OCCUPATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE
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B:\OCCQUES\OCCUQUES.TAB\November 16, 1993\March 7, 2004
OCCUPATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE (CONTINUED)
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Bibliography on the Model of Human Occupation
(Published Works on Instruments)
The Occupational Questionnaire
Barris, R., Kielhofner, G., Burch, R.M., Gelinas, I., Klement, M., & Schultz, B. (1986). Occupational function and dysfunction in three groups of adolescents. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 6,
Ebb, E.W., Coster, W., & Duncombe, L. (1989). Comparison of normal and psychosocially dysfunctional male adolescents. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 9(2),
Kielhofner, G., & Brinson, M. (1989). Development and evaluation of an aftercare program for young and chronic psychiatrically disabled adults. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 9(2),
Rust, K., Barris, R., & Hooper, F. (1987). Use of the model of human occupation to predict women’s exercise behavior. Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 7,
Smith, N., Kielhofner, G. & Watts, J. (1986). The relationship between volition, activity pattern and life satisfaction in the elderly. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 40,
Smyntek, L. Barris, R., & Kielhofner, G. (1985). The model of human occupation applied to psychosocially functional and dysfunctional adolescents. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 5(1),
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