Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.24141/1/3/2/13
Knowledge of Physical Laws in the Creation of the Physiotherapy Process
Ivana Crnković
orcid.org/0000-0002-5973-731X
; University of Applied Health Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Dalibor Perković
; University of Applied Health Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Janko Babić
; University of Applied Health Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Danijela Dobrić
; University of Applied Health Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Physics is one of the key natural sciences in physiotherapy practice. The aim of this study was to examine the knowledge and application of physical laws in the physiotherapy process of undergraduate physiotherapy students. The research included 92 second-year and third-year students, who passed the course Physics in their first year of study. For the purpose of this research, a test was developed with tasks thematically related to the application of physical laws in the creation of the physiotherapy process.
According to the results, most students achieved very good (39.1%) or excellent success (43.5%) in the course Physics. The perceived level of knowledge about the impact of physical laws for the purpose of objectification and improvement of the quality of the physiotherapy process was assessed by students as good. In the total sample, two thirds of students considered that knowledge of physical laws is important or very important in creating the physiotherapy process. A total of 60% of students correctly answered 2 or 3 out of the possible 5 questions in the test. The results show that there is a statistically significant difference in the number of correct answers; the students of the 2nd year of physiotherapy gave more accurate answers than the students of the 3rd year. Research results indicate that there is no statistically significant correlation between the students’ correct answers and their final assessment, self-assessment of knowledge in physics and the availability of professional and scientific literature.
The results of this research serve as a basis for the development of guidelines for designing strategies for improving the quality of the curriculum content of the course Physics at the Study of Physiotherapy in order to apply physical laws to the physiotherapy process.
Keywords
physical laws; physiotherapy process; physics
Hrčak ID:
191062
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2017.
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