Objectives: To explore physiotherapy students' experiences of patient-student relationship development, gained through volunteering with the Action after Stroke charity, with reference to usual placement experience, and to identify any changes in students' thoughts and feelings towards patients, and subsequent effect on relationship development.
Design: An exploratory qualitative study, utilising field diaries and a focus group interview.
Objective: To determine the concurrent validity, specificity and sensitivity of a newly developed tool; New Neglect Test (NNT) with line bisection test (LBT) and semistructured scale for the functional evaluation of hemi-inattention (SSS) in stroke patients, in assessing spatial neglect.
Methods: A total of 28 patients participated in the study. Peripersonal neglect was assessed using LBT and NNT; whereas personal and extrapersonal neglects were assessed using SSS and NNT.
Objectives: To explore physiotherapy students' experiences of patient-student relationship development, gained through volunteering with the Action after Stroke charity, with reference to usual placement experience, and to identify any changes in students' thoughts and feelings towards patients, and subsequent effect on relationship development.
Design: An exploratory qualitative study, utilising field diaries and a focus group interview.
Participants: Nine students who had volunteered with the charity for 11 weeks participated in the focus group.
Introduction: Objective: To assess gender differences in heart rate (HR) and perceptual responses during leg versus arm ergometry among healthy college-aged Saudis.
Methods: Forty healthy college-age Saudis (20 males) performed, in a random cross-over design, two maximal graded exercise leg (LE) and arm ergometry (AE). HR was continuously monitored/recorded during resting and throughout exercise period. Participants rated their perceived exertion (RPE), using Borg scale, at the end of each two-minute stage. Lactate from capillary blood was measured before and one minute after each test.
Introduction: Although there has been a shift towards competency-based medical education in the past decade, littlel iterature is available about the specific use of competency-based education in physiotherapy education. The purpose of this article is firstly to describe the development of a competency-based educational program for physiotherapy and secondly to present the results of the evaluation of the competency-based program by an independent panel of stakeholders.
