Rehabilitation Research
Research cluster
The rehabilitation research is organised thematically in
accordance with the World Health Organization's International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF, WHO
2001). ICF consists of a context-sensitive classification of
domains for a person in a given health situation grouped according
to functional capacity and level of functioning, activity and
participation.
Ongoing
research projects
In health care systems across the world the rehabilitation of
torture survivors has until now largely been based on clinical
experience seen from an illness perspective rather than being based
on scientific evidence seen in a professional rehabilitation
perspective. However, the RCT Rehabilitation Clinic and RCT's
Southern partners' rehabilitation activities provide the
possibility accomplishing a number of method and research projects
with a view to undertaking a more systematic gathering of knowledge
in a functioning perspective.
A desk study comprising a systematic review of the literature from
medical science on torture rehabilitation was concluded in 2005.
Also, two longitudinal studies in which RCT clients were monitored
for 22 months as well as a follow-up study of clients treated at
RCT 10 years ago were concluded and the results has been published.
The knowledge which has been obtained through these projects has
formed the basis for formulating RCT's research policy and for the
elaboration of new research projects.
Since 2008-2009 there has been a thematic focus on the
development of knowledge within the following main areas:
- TOV-related physical and mental symptoms (impairments) and the
treatment thereof.
- Effect (on activity and participation) of well-defined
rehabilitation programmes.