Abstract College and graduate students have been facing increasing stress levels in recent years, highlighting a need for stress management tools to help combat rising stress. A potential tool to examine is the multisensory environment (MSE), a room providing customizable sensory inputs, which has been shown in literature to be able to reduce feelings of stress. The project aimed to explore the effects of the MSE on self-reported perceived stress levels in college and graduate students and explore...

Abstract Experiencing an upper extremity (UE) impairment has a significant impact on an individual’s physical and mental health. Regular occupational therapy (OT) interventions for UE impairments typically only treat physical aspects. The purpose of this Doctoral Capstone Project (DCP) was to look at participants’ experience of using mindfulness interventions in conjunction with regular OT interventions to improve health management, and better meet the physical and mental health needs of...