NCT04498637

Attitudes Towards Disability of Nursing and Physiotherapy Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Extremadura · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-01
• Primary completion: 2018-07-30
• Completion: 2018-07-30
• First posted: 2020-08-04
• Last updated: 2020-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain