Clinical trial NCT06006481: Musculoskeletal Problems and Strategies Developed by Physiotherapists to Cope With Them
Official title: Comparison of Physiotherapists Working in Different Fields in Terms of Occupational Satisfaction, Burnout, Musculoskeletal System Problems and the Strategies They Developed to Cope With it.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Occupational Diseases
Muscle Pain
Keywords: physiotherapist
burnout
professional satisfaction
Lead sponsor: Uskudar University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-08-23
Enrollment: 255
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: physiotherapists who have been actively working for more than a year

Brief summary: The aim of this study is to investigate whether there is a difference in areas such as occupational musculoskeletal injuries and strategies developed by physiotherapists working in different fields, burnout and occupational satisfaction.

Detailed description: This study is a descriptive, cross-sectional online survey study. In this study, it is aimed to reach people who have graduated from the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Departments of the Faculties of Health Sciences or the Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Schools of universities in Turkey, which provide education for 4 years and have the title of "physiotherapist". Physiotherapists will be divided into 5 groups according to the fields they work. Group 1 is only pediatric patients, Group 2 is orthopedics and sportsman, Group 3 is neurology and intensive care, Group 4 is general group that receives patients in many fields, and Group 5 is physiotherapists working in the field of public health. planned to occur. Before starting the study, the participants will be asked to fill in the Volunteer and Consent Form that they voluntarily participated in, and then they will be asked to fill out the Personal Information Form, the Extended Nordic Musculoskeletal System Questionnaire, the Pain Coping Inventory, the Maslach Burnout Scale, and the Vocational Satisfaction Scale prepared by us. According to the results obtained, 5 different groups will be compared among themselves by the determined parameters. The surveys to be used will be uploaded to the Google Forms database. Then, the participants will be asked to participate in the study by being reached via online media such as e-mail, mobile phone applications , social media.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Volunteering to participate in the study
* Being a physiotherapist
* Having completed at least 1 year in the profession and continuing an active working life
* Being between the ages of 21 and 60

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not having completed 1 year in the profession
* Having any systemic disease

Primary outcomes:
measure: Extended Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Maslach Burnout Scale
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Vocational Satisfaction Scale
timeFrame: 2 days
measure: Pain Coping Inventory
timeFrame: 2 days
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Turkey
Study officials:
affiliation: Bahçeşehir University
name: Elif SANDIKÇI
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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