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This study explored OTPs\u2019 perspectives on the definitions, knowledge, meaning, challenges, and experiences with professional advocacy in OT.\n                    <jats:bold>METHOD:<\/jats:bold>\n                    This mixed-methods study used a researcher-designed, 23-question\n electronic survey to collect data from OTPs across the United States. The survey explored practitioners\u2019 advocacy-related perceptions, experiences, and engagement.\n                    <jats:bold>RESULTS:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Seventy-six OTPs completed the survey, with themes emerging around advocacy as voice, education, action,\n and community. Practitioners cited insufficient resources and support as barriers but emphasized that advocacy training and professional community involvement could improve engagement. Analysis revealed that advocacy impacts OTPs\u2019 roles and identities, supporting the doing-being-becoming-belonging\n framework\u2019s relevance in conceptualizing advocacy within OT.\n                    <jats:bold>CONCLUSIONS:<\/jats:bold>\n                    This study highlighted advocacy\u2019s transformative potential across the dimensions of doing, being, becoming, and belonging. Findings suggested encouraging participation in micro- and macro-level initiatives\n by encouraging increased student involvement, offering advocacy information to all stakeholders, considering small advocacy initiatives, and offering feasible options for support to enhance practitioner participation in the advocacy process.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.21091\/jah.2026.03056","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,23]],"date-time":"2026-09-23T04:31:09Z","timestamp":1790137869000},"page":"463-472","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Professional Advocacy in Occupational Therapy: Relating Practitioners\u2019 Experiences to the Doing, Being, Becoming, Belonging Framework"],"prefix":"10.21091","volume":"55","author":[{"given":"Pamela","family":"Lewis-Kipkulei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, 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