Physiotherapy Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire

Psychometric Evaluation of the Spanish Version of the Physiotherapy Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire: Multicenter Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05059483

Enrollment

235

Registered

2021-09-28

Start date

2023-10-02

Completion date

2024-08-11

Last updated

2025-02-13

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Conditions

Critical Thinking

Brief summary

A greater need for user-centered care and an evidence-based clinical practice are factors that emphasize critical thinking as a professional competence. Furthermore, critical thinking is an essential competence that allows clinical reasoning, problem solving and decision-making in the critical clinical practice of all specializations in Physiotherapy. However, no instrument has been found that specifically assesses the critical thinking of physiotherapists in their clinical practice.

Detailed description

Multicenter, descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational study in two phases. Phase 1: adaptation of the N-CT-4P to the population of physiotherapists; Phase 2: analysis of the psychometric properties of the new instrument and levels of critical thinking through a cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic and professional variables and variables referring to the measurement of critical thinking (total score of the questionnaire and of each of its dimensions) will be collected. Its psychometric properties, internal consistency, repeatability analysis, discriminant validity and construct validity will be analyzed through confirmatory factor analysis and a multiple regression analysis will be performed.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 67 Years

Inclusion criteria

* Be a Graduate, Diploma or Bachelor of Physiotherapy * Have an employment contract, as a care physiotherapist at the time of answering the questionnaire.

Exclusion criteria

* Have a contractual continuity of less than 15 days.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
To validate in the physiotherapist population the instrument Nursing Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire (N-CT-4 Practice) in its version Physiotherapy Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire (PT-CT-4 Practice).	The questionnaire will be self-administered and the estimated response time is less than 15 minutes.	Assessment of metric properties

Countries

Spain

Outcome results