Attitudes Towards Disability of Nursing and Physiotherapy Students

Completed

• Conditions: Disability, Vision; Disabilities Multiple; Disability Hearing; Disability Physical; Disability, Intellectual
• Interventions: Other: 'Attitudes towards people with disability Scale'

• Registration Number: NCT04498637
• Lead Sponsor: University of Extremadura

Brief 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-07-30
• Study Completion: 2018-07-30
• Status Verified: 2020-07
• Study First Submitted: 2020-07-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-07-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-07-30
• Study First Posted: 2020-08-04
• Last Update Posted: 2020-08-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 200

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Nursing students	'Attitudes towards people with disability Scale'	Students enrolled in the Nursing Bachelor´s Degree of the University of Cadiz, Spain
Physiotherapy students	'Attitudes towards people with disability Scale'	Students enrolled in the Physiotherapy Bachelor´s Degree of the University of Cadiz, Spain

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Attitude towards disability	Through study completion, an average of 11 months	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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Cadiz; 🇪🇸 Cadiz, Spain