Clinical Reasoning Process of Physiotherapists When Observing Hemiplegic Gait

Technical University of Bern

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stroke

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02504073

EKNZ08/12/14

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to find out what clinical reasoning process physiotherapists undergo when observing hemiplegic patients gait.

Full description

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?

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chartered physiotherapists
• physiotherapists in training
• working with stroke patients

Exclusion criteria

• other languages than German

Trial design

54 participants in 1 patient group

PT's working in stroke in NW-Switzerland

Description:

54 Physiotherapists (PT's) working in north-west Switzerland (at Bruderholzspital, RehaB Basel, Klinik Tschugg, Reha Rheinfelden, RehaClinic Zurzach) are asked to analyse videos of 6 hemiplegic patients when walking. They are asked to write down their main observations, the major problem and hypotheses about how this major problem is produced. There is no intervention.

Treatment:

Other: No intervention