New Critical Thinking in Physiotherapy Clinical Practice Questionnaire

Critical Thinking Clinical Trial

Official title:

Adaptation and Validation of the New Critical Thinking in Physiotherapy Clinical Practice Questionnaire: Multicenter Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05059483
• Other study ID #: N-CT-4 Physiotherapy
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: October 2, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute
• Contact: Beatriz Hernández-Méndez
• Phone: +34669340745
• Email: beatriz.hernandez[@]vallhebron.cat
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 209
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: January 31, 2024
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 67 Years

Eligibility

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.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Critical Thinking

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Hospital Vall d'Hebron	Barcelona

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

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