Physiotherapy Students Learning and Teaching Satisfaction

Alghamdi, Abdul Rhman; Alzahrani, Saleh; Abdel-aziem, Amr Almaz

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“…26 However, this result was lower than the international students satisfaction 27 and physiotherapy students of Taif University, Saudi Arabia. 28 The possible reasons could be that physiotherapy education in Ethiopia is relatively new when compared to the other countries. 12 Lack of experienced faculty members and awareness about the program might have influenced these results.…”

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Factors Influencing Student’s Satisfaction in the Physiotherapy Education Program

Temesgen¹,

Girma²,

Dugo³

et al. 2021

AMEP

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Background: Despite the expansion of the physiotherapy program over the past decade in Ethiopia, there is modest knowledge of the extent of physiotherapy students' satisfaction. This study was conducted at the Department of physiotherapy, University of Gondar in Ethiopia. Purpose: The objective of this study was to assess the satisfaction of students with the teaching and learning process and to identify the factors influencing course satisfaction amongst physiotherapy students. This questionnaire survey investigated the effects of demographic variables, perceptions of satisfaction, and education-related parameters on the level of student satisfaction with their educational experience. Methods: An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted by recruiting entrylevel physiotherapy students during 2018. Data were collected from a sample of 173 physiotherapy students using structured and validated self-administered Students Satisfaction Questionnaires. Logistic regression model was used to identify factors significantly associated with student satisfaction in the teaching and learning process. Results: Out of 173 participants, most of them 112 (64.7%) were male and the majority of them (37%) were third-year students. The overall student satisfaction was 33.1% for all categories. Awareness about physiotherapy education before enrolling into the physiotherapy educational program (AOR 6.3, 95% CI: 2.2-17.8), year of study (AOR 0.12, 95% CI: 0.02-0.67) and availability of classroom furniture (AOR 0.05, 95% CI: 0.04-0.66) were statistically significant associated factors for student satisfaction. Conclusion: The overall student's satisfaction on the learning and teaching process was low, in particular, the satisfaction for the clinical training is also below par, which is a major concern. Area of intervention and endorsements identified by this study was information about physiotherapy before joining the university, course duration, and availability of the classroom furniture. The efforts to raise physiotherapy student satisfaction in Ethiopia shall focus on creating awareness of the physiotherapy education program at the pre-college level and improving classroom facilities in the first place.

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Factors Influencing Student’s Satisfaction in the Physiotherapy Education Program

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Dugo³

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“…[15] However, it was less than the findings of the study was conducted 7 years ago in Saudi Arabia, which reported that 70.2% of the universities did not provide the physiotherapy students with official EBP training, [10] which inversely affected the students' satisfaction level of clinical training. [36] So, EBP training is necessary to encourage decision-makers to embrace it more frequently in clinical practice. [37] The present study showed that 58.8% had knowledge about using databases, and 60.4% had not engaged in educational course for EBP.…”

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Saudi physiotherapists' attitudes, knowledge, behaviors, and barriers towards evidence-based practice: A cross-sectional study

Abdel-aziem,

Ragaa,

Hamed

et al. 2024

Journal of Contemporary Medicine

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Background and objective: At present, there is limited knowledge about the determinants of evidence-based practice (EBP) among Saudi physiotherapists. So, this study investigated the attitudes, knowledge, behaviors and perceived barriers of Saudi physiotherapists regarding EBP. Methods: A sample of 323 physiotherapists completed an EBP questionnaire, which was designed to cover six domains of EBP; Attitudes and beliefs, interest, attention to literature, information availability, educational background, and its barriers. Results: The participants concurred that EBP is essential (91%), literature helps practice (75%). EBP enhances patient care (80%), reimbursement rates (82%), and aids in decision-making (75%). They discovered that EBP does not consider patient preferences (37%) or the constraints of the clinical practice (71%). They were interested in enhancing their abilities (80%). They needed to use evidence more frequently in daily work (74%). Seventy-six percent having access to professional publications, and 80% have online access to EBP guidelines. Seventy-one percent disagree that their workplace encouraged the EBP usage. Fifty-one percent had not learned the EBP's fundamentals. Sixty percent had not attended training sessions on finding research, 75% were not confident in their capacity to evaluate professional literature, and locate pertinent research to address clinical concerns (62%). Conclusion: The Saudi physiotherapists have a generally positive attitude toward EBP and are interested in increasing its usage in their practices. However, their attention to literature was relatively low. They need for training sessions for using data base. The lack of time was the most important barrier to EBP.

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“…Sixth, anxiety, depression, general motor or cognitive impairments and relational difficulties were not taken into account. More research will be looked-forward to study the adverse effect of smartphones addiction on the students' satisfaction about the learning and teaching process, which was in need to be improved before the COVID-19 pandemic, especially students of medical sciences (50). Future research is needed to look into the impact of a home-exercise program on the students' functional neck disabilities.…”

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The Relationship between Smartphone Addiction and Functional Neck Disability among University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic

ABDEL-AZİEM,

DEWİR,

ALOTİBİ

et al. 2023

Clinical and Experimental Health Sciences

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Objective: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of smartphones addiction, and to investigate the relationship between smartphones addiction and functional neck disability among the students of Taif University during a Covid-19 pandemic. Methods: A 1060 students from Taif University participated in this study. The smartphones addiction was evaluated by using the short version of the smartphone’s addiction scale (SAS-SV) and functional neck disability was measured by the neck disability index (NDI). Results: About 83 % of the students reported smartphones addiction, 50% were suffering from mild neck disability, and 84% used their smartphones for more than 4 hours/day. Female students represented one and half times more than male to develop a smartphones addiction (p< 0.05). There was a significant association between smartphones addition and neck disability (p< 0.05). Moreover, female students had a functional neck disability significantly greater than male students (p= 0.001). Students with smartphones addiction represented three times more than students without addiction to develop functional neck disability (p= 0.001), and female students represented two times more than male students to develop functional neck disability (p= 0.001). Conclusion: During a COVID-19 pandemic, more than four-fifth of the students showed smartphones addiction. The female students are more predictive to smartphones addiction than male. The smartphones addiction and female students were found to be the predictors for functional neck disability.

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Physiotherapy Students Learning and Teaching Satisfaction

Cited by 3 publications

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Factors Influencing Student’s Satisfaction in the Physiotherapy Education Program

Factors Influencing Student’s Satisfaction in the Physiotherapy Education Program

Saudi physiotherapists' attitudes, knowledge, behaviors, and barriers towards evidence-based practice: A cross-sectional study

The Relationship between Smartphone Addiction and Functional Neck Disability among University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic

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