Estudio del marco de referencia bioético en estudiantes españoles de Fisioterapia

Objective

To determine the general anthropological and moral reference framework of the physiotherapy students of a Spanish university. Based on the results obtained, it is aimed to find the keys to modify/strengthen the teaching content of the student's curricula.

Method

Using a reliable and already validated questionnaire on values and ethics, a survey was made of 124 Spanish physiotherapy students.

Results

Means comparison were made with the contrast of hypothesis, using the t test with a 95% (p<0.05) reliability in order to find the significant differences between the answers of the men and women. The physiotherapy students have a moral value system focused on the religious factor. They share the idea that the individual has an intrinsic dignity and most of them are believers while they tend to give priority to helping and providing well-being to the patients over their autonomy and equal rights in health care. A total of 81% of the students usually pose existential type questions.

Conclusions

Although paradoxically in Spain, all the education of the health professional has been traditionally based on the biomedical frame of reference and the Spanish physiotherapy student's ethics view is clearly humanistic.