Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Basic Science

Physiotherapy performance is an aspiration of the physiotherapy profession, a high standard of performance ensures the effectiveness of practice and promotes the status of physiotherapy in the community. Of this study was to compare between the physical therapist performance in intensive care unit and outpatient clinic. One hundred physical therapists into two equal groups were recruited from intensive care unit (ICU) and outpatient clinic from both gender their graduation year ranged from 1998 to 2009. Group (A) consists of fifty physical therapist recruited from ICU departments. Group (B) consists of fifty physical therapists recruited from outpatient clinic departments. Both groups were assessed for their performance by their supervisors using the Australian Assessment of Physical therapy practice tool (form C-supervision report) then the comparison was done between both groups. There was no statistically significant difference of demographic characteristics within the two groups and as total except in the experience level within group A and total of both groups. The cumulative mean and standard deviation for all questionnaires for group (A) was (3.249±0.113) and group (B) was (3.146±0.217). There was no statistically significant difference between groups (A) and (B) as a total and for all dimensions of questionnaire, except for evidence based practice dimension as p value equal 0.0001. There was no significant difference between physical therapist's performance in ICU and outpatient clinic in all dimensions except in evidence based practice dimension

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