Objective : The purpose of this study was to investigate attitudes of Korean occupational therapists toward introducing an accreditation system of occupational therapy education programs. Method : The self-administering written questionnaire was employed for this survey research. The questionnaire was developed and reviewed by the Accreditation Board for the Education of Korean Occupational Therapists and was composed of 18 items which included both closed-ended and open-ended questions. The questionnaire was distributed to Korean occu-pational therapists who attended at the 10th annual conference of Korean Association of Occupational Therapists in October 2002.Results : Among 106 respondents, 80.2% expressed their concern about the sudden increase of new occupational therapy education programs and they believed that the curricula of new in-stitutions and the quality of the institutes’ graduates would be different. On the question of ne-cessity of introducing the accreditation system of occupational therapy education programs, 89.7% responded that it was necessary. All respondents agreed that clinical fieldwork experience was necessary and the preferred length was 16, 24, and 12 weeks in order. The areas to be in-cluded in the accreditation were the number of qualified professors, fieldwork hours, and the contents of curricula in order. 77.4% of the sample responded that they would trust the result and process of the accreditation. Conclusion : Based on the result of the survey, it could be inferred that the majority of oc-cupational therapists were concerned about improving quality of the profession rather than its quantitative expansion. Therefore, it is expected that the accreditation system of occupational therapy education programs would ensure the qualitative growth of occupational therapy pro-fession in Korea.

Objective : To compare the value of basic activities of daily living between occupational therapists and patients with stroke. Methods : A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the relative importance of basic ADL (Activities of Daily Living) with a total of thirty-four item cards. The survey was completed by 36 occupational therapists that have clinical experience of more than three years in a hospital or rehabilitation settings and by 38 inpatients/outpatients with stroke. The relative importance of each activity of daily living was measured by the Q sorting technique. A Mann-Whitney U test was used to test the statistical significance of the mean difference in the Q score between the occupational therapists and the patients with stroke. Results : Among the 34 items, 11 items (‘obtaining and using supplies’, ‘selecting clothing’ etc.) selected by inpatients, showed that the Q score was significantly higher in its importance than that of occupational therapists. The survey showed that ‘caring for nails’ was more im-portant to outpatients than it was to occupational therapists. Several items (18 items for in-patients, 3 items for outpatients) of the total 34 items were statistically significantly different on the value of the basic ADL between occupational therapists and patients with stroke. Conclusion : The relative value of each activity of daily living could serve as a guide for sequencing learning steps during the ADL training in a hostpital or rehabilitation setting.