SUMMARY FOR ARTICLE

A web-mail survey was sent to 2,,5 Swedish occupational therapists working in health care at regional, county council or primary health care level, and those working in vocational rehabilitation. Creative activities have been used as a means of intervention in occupational therapy since the beginning of the profession especially by occupational therapists working with patients in psychiatric health care and also in the rehabilitation of soldiers during World War I. Studies in occupational therapy and in related areas such as social science education nursing and midwifery demonstrate the benefit of creative activities and the positive impact and value that it has for human health and well-being. Men also more often reported working in health care with the municipal as principal employer and other principal employers of health care and less often with the county councils as principal employer than women. There was a significant relationship between the level of health care the respondent worked at and the use of creative activities. Also respondents who worked with patients in psychiatric rehabilitation used creative activities significantly more often than those working with patients in somatic rehabilitation stressed patients/ patients with chronic pain or other groups of patients.