Clinical Trial: Clinical Reasoning Process of Physiotherapists When Observing Hemiplegic Gait
Study Status: Active, not recruiting
Recruit Status: Active, not recruiting
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: Clinical Reasoning Process of Physiotherapists When Observing Hemiplegic Gait
Brief Summary: The goal of this study is to find out what clinical reasoning process physiotherapists undergo when observing hemiplegic patients gait.
Detailed Summary:
Physiotherapists don't usually use any assessments to evaluate gait but observe it without an instrument. The questions in this study are:
- what abnormalities can physiotherapists detect when observing a patient walking?
- what do they consider the main problem that has a negative effect on the patient's walking?
- what hypothesis do they generate?
- how is the inter-rater reliability for the "main problem" and the hypothesis?
Sponsor: Technical University of Bern
Current Primary Outcome: Questionnaire [ Time Frame: up to 2 months ]
The questionnaire will be the basis of this study as it will be the basis for open coding. It is handed out to 54 observers (=physiotherapists) and will be filled in 6 times (for 6 patient videos).
The questionnaire consists of 5 questions:
- what gait abnormalities do you see?
- What do you consider the main problem (1 sentence)
- what is your hypothesis (max. 3)
- what would be your next steps if you could examine the patient?
- how severely impaired do you consider the patient? mild, moderate, severe?
Original Primary Outcome: Same as current
Current Secondary Outcome: Functional ambulation categories (FAC) [ Time Frame: up to 2 months ]
Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current
Information By: Technical University of Bern
Dates:
Date Received: July 15, 2015
Date Started: March 2015
Date Completion: October 2015
Last Updated: July 17, 2015
Last Verified: July 2015
