en مدیریت توانبخشی Rehabilitation Management پژوهشي Original Research Articles <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:2;"><strong>Objectives</strong>: The presence of skilled, motivated therapists is critical to meet the rehabilitation needs of children with disability. This study aimed to determine whether on-the-job training on applying goal attainment scaling (GAS) affects pediatric occupational therapists&#39; burnout and job motivation.<br> <strong>Methods</strong>: This study was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design. After signing the informed consent, 35 pediatric occupational therapists at a child rehabilitation center attended a course of five 1.5-2 h workshop sessions during 5 consequent weeks on applying GAS in their workplace. Through the workshop, the trainees practiced setting goals and making 5-point scales to measure the degree of reaching those goals. The participant asked to bring some of their client&#39;s descriptions (anonymous) to the workshop as samples to talk about them. Afterward, they were asked to fill in the GAS documentation form as part of their rehabilitation records. Participants&#39; job motivation and burnout scores were measured by the Maslach questionnaire and Loudahel Kitchener&#39;s Job Motivation Scale, respectively, before the workshop and 30 and 60 days later. The paired t-test and Wilcoxon test were used for comparisons.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Results</strong>: The Mean&plusmn;SD job motivation scores, which were 42.37&plusmn;6.73 before the intervention, rose to 52.82&plusmn;8.51 and 56&plusmn;7.59 at the end of the workshop (day 30) and on follow-up measurement (day 60), respectively (P<0.001). The effect size was 0.556. The burnout scores slightly decreased from 58&plusmn;12.86 before the intervention to 55.37&plusmn;12.07, with an effect size of 0.117 on day 60 measurements.<br> <strong>Discussion</strong>: A short on-the-job training workshop on applying GAS in the formal assessment of achievements in different aspects of child life by rehabilitation practices could help in enhancing therapists&#39; job motivation. Positive effects of GAS administration on motivation and burnout in therapists should take into account along with the client benefits for judging the usefulness of the GAS.</span></span></span></div> Burnout, Goal attainment scale, Occupational therapists, pediatrics, Motivation, On-the-job training 49 56 http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-417-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Yalda Sadeghi Sadeghi.yalda1993@gmail.com 0000-0002-5063-5907 No Department of Rehabilitation Management, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Nikta Hatamizadeh nikta_h@yahoo.com 0000-0001-6926-490X Yes Department of Rehabilitation Management, Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Research Center, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Soheila Shahshahani sol_shah@yahoo.com 0000-0002-3499-6075 No Department of Rehabilitation Management, Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Research Center, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Samaneh Hosseinzadeh hosseinzadeh.sam@gmail.com 0000-0003-0559-148X No Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.