Awareness and perception of physiotherapy practice among career educators in selected secondary schools in Nigeria

S. Bolarinde, Temitope Owoyemi, A. Obaya, Michael Nanimebila
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Context: High school career educators educate and counsel senior students on choice of career. The pursuit of a career in physiotherapy depends largely on the information available to the students. Aims: The aim of the study is to investigate the level of awareness and perception of the physiotherapy profession among secondary school career educators. Settings and Design: The cross-sectional study recruited 49 secondary school career educators in both public and private secondary schools in Owo local government area of Ondo-state, South-western Nigeria. Subjects and Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was used to obtain information on the level of awareness and knowledge about physiotherapy. Statistical Analysis Used: Data were summarized using mean, standard deviation, frequency, and percentiles. Results: About 95.5% of school career educators are aware of physiotherapy. 77.6% are aware that physiotherapy can be studied in university, while others believe that it can be studied in polytechnic (4.1%), college of education (2.0%), and technical schools (6.1%). 51.0% knew about adequate subject combination for gaining admission to study physiotherapy, while 49.0% did not know about the adequate subject combination. The overall knowledge score of <48.0% among school career educators indicated inadequate knowledge about physiotherapy practice, treatment modalities, and specialties. Conclusions: Secondary school career educators in this study demonstrated a high level of awareness about physiotherapy. However, their knowledge about the practice of physiotherapy, treatment modalities, specialties, and employability in institutions other than government own health facilities remains inadequate. The professional body of physiotherapy should organize programs aimed at improving the knowledge of secondary school career educators about the practice of physiotherapy.
尼日利亚选定中学职业教育工作者对物理治疗实践的认识和看法
背景:高中职业教育者对高年级学生进行职业选择教育和咨询。追求物理治疗的职业生涯在很大程度上取决于学生可获得的信息。目的:调查中学职业教育工作者对物理治疗专业的认知和认知水平。环境和设计:横断面研究在尼日利亚西南部翁多州奥沃地方政府地区的公立和私立中学招募了49名中学职业教育工作者。研究对象和方法:采用自我填写的调查问卷,了解患者对物理治疗的认知和知识水平。使用统计分析:用平均值、标准差、频率和百分位数对数据进行汇总。结果:95.5%的学校职业教育工作者了解物理治疗。77.6%的人知道物理治疗可以在大学学习,而其他人认为可以在理工学院(4.1%),教育学院(2.0%)和技术学校(6.1%)学习。51.0%的人知道是否有足够的学科组合来获得入学资格,49.0%的人不知道是否有足够的学科组合。学校职业教育工作者的总体知识得分<48.0%,表明对物理治疗实践、治疗方式和专业知识的了解不足。结论:本研究的中学职业教育工作者对物理治疗的认知水平较高。然而,他们对物理治疗的实践、治疗方式、专业和在政府自己的保健设施以外的机构的就业能力的了解仍然不足。物理治疗专业团体应组织旨在提高中学职业教育工作者对物理治疗实践的认识的课程。
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