LibGuides: Occupational Therapy Assistant: Websites

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REHABDATA (Research database) NARIC's searchable literature database on disability and rehabilitation. More than 120,000 documents are abstracted in this database. NARIC adds approximately 4,000 items to REHABDATA each year, including 1,000 international research documents.
American Psychological Association [APA]
American Stroke Association
healthfinder.gov
HO Theory HOTheory is a database that contains theories, models, frames of reference, and frameworks that are developed specifically by occupational therapists or for use in occupational therapy. This database is designed to help occupational therapy practitioners and students to find theoretical knowledge to inform their practice and learning.
MedlinePlus: population groups
Muscular Dystrophy Association [MDA]
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [NINDS]
National Institutes of Health [NIH] - Health Topics
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Rehabilitation Information Center [NARIC] The National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) is the library of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). We collect, catalog, and disseminate the articles, reports, curricula, guides, and other publications and products of the research projects funded by NIDILRR.
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

Evaluate websites that have information you would like to use in your assignments.

Look on each website for an "About Us" page to answer some of the following questions:

	("adaptive equipment" OR "adaptive technology' ) AND elderly site:.gov
	174,000 results

	How can adaptive equipment help the elderly?
	3,150,000 results

Here's how to craft a better search to get fewer and more relevant results:

Identify the main ideas in your research question.
How can adaptive equipment help the elderly?
Connect the main ideas with AND.
adaptive equipment AND elderly
Use quotation marks around 2 or more words that need to be together.
"adaptive equipment" AND elderly
Use OR between synonyms/related terms.
("adaptive equipment" OR "adaptive technology") AND elderly
Limit your search to a specific domain, such as .edu, .gov, or .org.
("adaptive equipment" OR "adaptive technology") AND elderly site:.gov

How Wikipedia CAN be useful in the beginning stages of research:

	A basic overview of your topic.
	Important names, vocabulary and keywords related to your topic.
	Table of contents for some entries, helping you to understand how your topic can be organized.
	References and other websites that may be helpful (though you will need to evaluate them to be sure).

Why NOT to use Wikipedia for academic research:

X The accuracy and authority of a Wikipedia article cannot be verified.