Importance Attributed to Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Competencies by Public Sector Physical Therapists in Kuwait: A Population-based Exploratory Study

Al-Sayegh, Nowall; Al-Shuwai, Nadia; Al‐Obaidi, Saud; Dean, Elizabeth

doi:10.1002/pri.1633

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“…Of the 35 studies, the majority were conducted in the USA (n = 24, 68.6%), followed by Canada and the United Kingdom (n = 3, 8.6% per country), Australia and South Africa (n = 2, 5.7% per country), and Kuwait (n = 1, 2.8%). Studies aimed to identify new competencies (n = 17, 48.6%) [ 27 – 46 ], adapt existing competencies to a new context of interest (n = 9, 25.7%) [ 47 – 55 ], or update/revalidate competencies (n = 9, 25.7%) [ 56 – 64 ].…”

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“…Seventeen studies (48.6%) used an existing set or list of competencies as a starting point for the research (Table 2). The sources of these competencies were varied and included previous research or professional documents that were used to understand which competencies were important for a specific role or professional group (e.g., specific clinical role or new graduates) [49][50][51][52][53]55], existing competencies for physiotherapists in another country to understand which competencies are important in the country of interest [47,54], or from existing competencies for other professions to understand the relevance to physiotherapy [48]. Additionally, professional organization documents (e.g., American Physical Therapy Association description of specialty practice or policy statement to be updated) [57][58][59][61][62][63] or results from a previous study on the same topic [56,64] were sources of competencies used to update/revalidate competencies for the physiotherapy profession.…”

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Methodological approaches for identifying competencies for the physiotherapy profession: a scoping review

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Physiotherapy competencies inform the education and regulation of the profession. Many different methods appear to be used to identify competencies and there is no consensus on optimal methods to identify competencies. The purpose of this review is to synthesize the methodological approaches used to identify competencies for the physiotherapy profession and summarize the nature of those competencies. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the grey literature from inception to June 2020. Two independent reviewers screened for empirical peer-reviewed articles that aimed to identify professional physiotherapy competencies. General study characteristics, competency characteristics (e.g., target practice area), and methodological characteristics (e.g., study population, data collection and analysis method for each methodological step) were extracted. Descriptive statistics and narrative synthesis were performed. Of the 9529 references screened, 38 articles describing 35 studies published between 1980 and 2020 were included. Orthopaedics (20.0%) was the most commonly targeted area of practice. Studies used one to eight methodological steps whose objective was to generate (16 studies), validate (18 studies), assign value (21 studies), refine (10 studies), or triangulate (3 studies) competencies, or to address multiple objectives (10 studies). The most commonly used methods were surveys to assign value (n = 20, 95%), and group techniques to refine competencies (n = 7, 70%). Physiotherapists with experience in the area of competence was the most commonly consulted stakeholder group (80% of studies). This review can provide methodological guidance to stakeholders such as educators and regulators that aim to identify professional competencies in the future.

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