Attitudes Towards Disability of Nursing and Physiotherapy Students

Disability Physical Clinical Trial

Official title:

Attitudes Towards Disability of Nursing and Physiotherapy Students

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04498637
• Other study ID #: POR-2017
• Status: Completed
• Start date: September 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: University of Extremadura
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The general objective of this study is to know the attitude towards people with disability of Nursing and Physiotherapy students in the University of Cadiz. This is a descriptive, correlational, transversal and synchronous study.

Description:

Attitudes determine our behaviour to some extent. Health professionals should have a global perspective of disability. They must provide treatment to people with disability and care for them, but also should accept them with no judgements or discrimination. The general objective of this study is to know the attitude towards people with disability of Nursing and Physiotherapy students in the University of Cadiz. Method: This is a descriptive, correlational, transversal and synchronous study. A total of 200 students participate in the study (91 from the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and 109 from the Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy). The 'Attitudes towards people with disability Scale' was used.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: July 30, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: July 30, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 21 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students from the Physiotherapy Bachelor´s Degree of the university of Cadiz

• Students from the Nursing Bachelor´s Degree of the university of Cadiz, Campus of Jerez de la Frontera and Cadiz

Exclusion Criteria:

• None

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disabilities Multiple
• Disability Hearing
• Disability Physical
• Disability, Intellectual
• Disability, Vision
• Intellectual Disability
• Vision Disorders

Intervention

Other:
• 'Attitudes towards people with disability Scale'
The scale 'Attitudes towards people with disability' was completed by the participants. This scale allows the analysis of the attitudes towards disability trough a score whose lower values indicate a more negative attitude and higher values indicate more positive attitudes.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	University of Cadiz	Cadiz

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Extremadura	University of Cadiz

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Attitude towards disability	The 'Attitudes towards people with disabilities scale' (G form) is the assessment tool used (Verdugo M., Jenaro C. y Arias B., 1994) to assess the attitude that students from Physiotherapy and Nursing in the University of Cadiz have. This scale allows the analysis of the attitudes towards disability trough a score whose lower values indicate a more negative attitude and higher values indicate more positive attitudes.	Through study completion, an average of 11 months