Clinical trial NCT06010407: Examining the Attitudes of Physiotherapists on Patient Psychology
Official title: Examining the Attitudes of Physiotherapists on Patient Psychology: the Use of Psychology Methods and Psychology Education.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Psychology, Social
Psychological
Keywords: physiotherapist
attitude
Lead sponsor: Uskudar University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-08-24
Enrollment: 200
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: active physiotherapists

Brief summary: To examine the psychology methods used by physiotherapists on patient psychology and to investigate their attitudes about psychology education.

Detailed description: The answers will be collected by asking questions to the participants with an online survey. The scales and surveys to be used are as follows:

* Working Alliance Inventory (Therapeutic Alliance Scale)
* Attitude Towards Psychiatry-30 Scale
* Questionnaires prepared by the researcher.

surveys will be sent to the participants via e-mail or phone message applications.The obtained data will be analyzed statistically.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being a physiotherapist
* Having access to a computer/tablet/phone and internet
* To have accepted the voluntary consent form that requires participation in the survey study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Those who do not meet the participation criteria
* Those who do not approve the voluntary consent form

Primary outcomes:
measure: Working Alliance Inventory
timeFrame: 1 day
measure: Attitude Towards Psychiatry-30 Scale
timeFrame: 1 day
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Uskudar university
Study officials:
affiliation: Uskudar University
name: Lobana chiah
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
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