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An important component of our rehabilitation centre is research. We regularly partner with other institutions to broaden our knowledge of occupational rehabilitation topics.

Research Initiatives
Following are some recent research initiatives:

A WorkSafeNB occupational therapist co-authored a research study that was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy. This research laid the groundwork for a new research project currently underway with Dalhousie University on The utilization and development of the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS) in vocational settings: Expanding the use of a performance-based occupational therapy measurement tool. Within this study, AMPS activities of daily living motor and process ability measures are being used to determine a client’s ability to safely return to work. Further, a small set of new vocational AMPS tasks will be determined and validated as part of the standardized AMPS tasks.
Research on The Role of Catastrophizing, Pain-Related Anxiety, Coping and Anger in Adjustment to Chronic Low Back Pain began in March 2006 with clients in the Work Recovery Program and was completed in 2009. The research helped identify the biopsychosocial factors that contribute to a client’s communication of chronic musculoskeletal pain, and examined the extent to which verbal and nonverbal expressions of pain are influenced by a client’s beliefs about pain, coping styles and emotional reactions. The research also determined what client-related factors influence an observer’s decisions regarding treatment, perceived level of pain and disability, and entitlement to compensation, particularly the impact of a client’s physical and functional assessment results, coping style, and pain expressiveness.
In June 2007, the WRC began a collaborative research project on the Insomnia Intervention Program with Dalhousie University. The objective is to better understand the nature of an injured worker’s sleep complaints and to develop an assessment, intervention and follow-up tool to help the injured worker sleep better. Research was conducted and completed with a control sample using clients in the Work Recovery Program.