Looking into the Content of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM): A Danish Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Description of the five levels of the Taxonomic Code of Occupational Performance (TCOP) (17, p. 19).

Levels of complexity	Definition
1. Occupation	The overarching concept of doing. Performed with some consistency or because it gives meaning and value to life, e.g., having a birthday dinner or getting a job
2. Activity	The doings within an occupation. Have specific outcomes, e.g., planning and preparing food for the dinner or writing a job application
3. Task	A performance with a lesser and more specific outcome, e.g., preparing a cucumber salad or printing the job application
4. Action	Voluntary movements or mental processes that form a recognizable and purposeful pattern, e.g., holding on and cutting cucumbers for the salad with a knife or grabbing the paper from the printer
5. Voluntary movements or mental processes	The basic body functions (i.e., joint motions or cognitive abilities) needed to perform tasks, e.g., flexing the fingers around the knife and knowing the right sizes of cucumbers needed for this particulate salad and flexing the fingers to grasp the paper and pay attention to the print when it is ready.