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Augmented behavioral medicine competencies in physical therapy students' clinical reasoning with a targeted curriculum : a final-semester cohort-comparison study
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- Elvén, Maria, 1973- (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Hälsa och välfärd,BEME
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- Dean, Elizabeth (author)
- University of British Columbia, Canada
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- Söderlund, Anne, 1957- (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Hälsa och välfärd,BEME
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- 2022
- 2022
- English.
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In: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0959-3985 .- 1532-5040. ; 38:12, s. 2007-2018
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- Background: Knowledge regarding the impact of curricula with behavioral medicine content and competencies (BMCC) on physical therapy (PT) students’ clinical reasoning skills is lacking. Objectives: The primary objective was to compare the clinical reasoning skills, focusing on clients’ behavioral change, of entry-level PT students with or without BMCC in their curricula. The second-ary objective was to compare students’ attitudes and beliefs in a biomedical and biopsychosocial practice orientation.Methods: Swedish final-semester PT students (n = 151) completed the Reasoning 4 Change (R4C) instrument and the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Physiotherapists. A blueprint was used for curricular categorization. The independent t-test was used.Results: Students attending programs with BMCC curricula (n = 61) had superior scores compared with students without BMCC curricula (n = 90) in the following R4C variables, all of which were related to clinical reasoning focused on behavioral change: Knowledge, Cognition, Self-efficacy, Input from the client, Functional behavioral analysis, and Strategies for behavioral change. Students who did not receive BMCC curricula scored higher in the R4C contextual factors and reported a greater biomedical practice orientation than students receiving BMCC curricula. There was no difference in the biopsychosocial practice orientation between groups.Conclusions: Our findings support the benefit of structured entry-level PT curricula with BMCC on final-semester students’ clinical reasoning skills focused on behavioral change and their level of biomedical practice orientation. Further, our findings elucidated educational opportunities to augment students’ self-efficacy and strengthen their behavioral competencies in clinical reasoning. For the generalizability of the results further research in other contexts is needed.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Behavioral Medicine; clinical reasoning; curriculum; education; physical therapy
- fysioterapi
- Physiotherapy
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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