Clinical Reasoning Process of Physiotherapists When Observing Hemiplegic Gait

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title:

Clinical Reasoning Process of Physiotherapists When Observing Hemiplegic Gait

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02504073
• Other study ID #: EKNZ08/12/14
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 15, 2015
• Last updated: July 17, 2015
• Start date: March 2015
• Est. completion date: October 2015

Study information

• Verified date: July 2015
• Source: Technical University of Bern
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Switzerland: Ethikkommission
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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

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?

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 54
• Est. completion date: October 2015
• Est. primary completion date: June 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• chartered physiotherapists

• physiotherapists in training

• working with stroke patients

Study Design

N/A

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stroke

Intervention

Other:
• Exploratory sequential design
Building from qualitative data to quantitative data.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Technical University of Bern

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Questionnaire	The questionnaire will be the basis of this study as it will be the basis for open coding. It is handed out to 54 observers (=physiotherapists) and will be filled in 6 times (for 6 patient videos).; The questionnaire consists of 5 questions: what gait abnormalities do you see?; What do you consider the main problem (1 sentence); what is your hypothesis (max. 3); what would be your next steps if you could examine the patient?; how severely impaired do you consider the patient? mild, moderate, severe?	up to 2 months	No
Secondary	Functional ambulation categories (FAC)	The FAC is used as a tool to compare the results of question number 5 above	up to 2 months	No