Just the Jobs? A Student Readership Survey of the British Journal of Occupational Therapy

Abstract

This article describes a student readership survey of the British Journal of Occupational Therapy conducted with the 1987-1988 occupational therapy finalist students at Liverpool Institute of Higher Education. The aim of the research was to determine if this journal meets students' needs and if they, in turn, make appropriate use of it. This was achieved by comparing the numbers of students interested in various sections and categories of the journal with the number of journal pages allocated to each of these areas. The findings indicate that student needs and allocation of journal space correlate in 67% of the categories and sections. Reasons for the non-correlation of the remaining 33% are discussed.