Physical Therapists’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Barriers Regarding Fall Screening and Prevention among Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-Sectional Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Materials
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Descriptive Statistics
3.2. Opinions of Physical Therapists Regarding the Risk Factors for Falls
3.3. Management Options Provided to Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
3.4. Common Mechanism of Falling
3.5. Analysis of Fall Screening and Prevention Attitudes by Physical Therapists’ Characteristics
3.5.1. Current Practice of Physical Therapists
Identify Risk Factors for Fall
Provide Intervention to Fall
Educate Patient on Fall Prevention
3.5.2. Fall Screening and Prevention
Awareness of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for Osteoarthritis
Training for Fall Prevention
Yes | No | ||
---|---|---|---|
Fall Screening and Fall Prevention | |||
Gender | Male | 62 (71.3) | 25 (28.7) |
Female | 86 (72.3) | 33 (27.7) | |
Specialty | Musculoskeletal | 42 (71.2) | 17 (28.8) |
Non-musculoskeletal | 106 (72.1) | 41 (27.9) | |
Employment sector | Academic | 24 (75.0) | 8 (25.0) |
Non-academic | 124 (71.3) | 50 (28.7) | |
Experience | Fewer than 10 years | 128 (73.1) | 47 (26.9) |
More than 10 years | 20 (64.5) | 11 (35.5) | |
Qualification | Postgraduate | 39 (67.2) | 19 (32.8) |
Undergraduate | 109 (73.6) | 39 (26.4) | |
Awareness of CPG | |||
Gender | Male | 28 (32.6) | 58 (67.4) |
Female | 33 (27.7) | 86 (72.3) | |
Specialty | Musculoskeletal | 24 (41.4) | 34 (58.6) |
None-musculoskeletal | 37 (25.2) | 110 (74.8) | |
Employment sector | Academic | 9 (28.1) | 23 (71.9) |
Non-academic | 52 (30.1) | 121 (69.9) | |
Experience | Fewer than 10 years | 52 (29.9) | 122 (70.1) |
More than 10 years | 9 (29.0) | 22 (71.0) | |
Qualification | Postgraduate | 23 (40.4) | 34 (59.6) |
Undergraduate | 38 (25.7) | 110 (74.3) | |
Training Fall Prevention | |||
Gender | Male | 17 (19.5) | 70 (80.5) |
Female | 18 (15.1) | 101 (84.9) | |
Specialty | Musculoskeletal | 6 (10.2) | 53 (89.8) |
None-musculoskeletal | 29 (19.7) | 118 (80.3) | |
Employment sector | Academic | 6 (18.8) | 26 (81.3) |
Non-academic | 29 (16.7) | 145 (83.3) | |
Experience | Fewer than 10 years | 29 (16.6) | 146 (83.4) |
More than 10 years | 6 (19.4) | 25 (80.6) | |
Qualification | Postgraduate | 8 (13.8) | 50 (86.2) |
Undergraduate | 27 (18.2) | 121 (81.8) |
3.6. Structural Equation Modeling
3.7. Barriers to Provide Fall Screening and Prevention
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | Frequency (n) | Percentage (%) | |
---|---|---|---|
Age (years) | Less than 25 | 65 | (31.6) |
25–34 | 98 | (47.6) | |
35–44 | 29 | (14.1) | |
45–54 | 12 | (5.8) | |
55 and above | 2 | (1.0) | |
Gender | Male | 87 | (42.2) |
Female | 119 | (57.8) | |
Employment sector | Academic | 32 | (15.5) |
Non-academic | 174 | (84.5) | |
Education qualification | Undergraduate | 148 | (71.8) |
Postgraduate | 58 | (28.2) | |
Subspecialty | Musculoskeletal | 59 | (28.6) |
Non-Musculoskeletal | 147 | (71.4) | |
Experience | Fewer than 10 years | 175 | (85.0) |
More than 10 years | 31 | (15.0) | |
Number of patients in 3 weeks | None | 47 | (22.8) |
1–5 | 97 | (47.1) | |
6–10 | 42 | (20.4) | |
11–15 | 11 | (5.3) | |
16 or more | 9 | (4.4) | |
Confidence in treating osteoarthritis patients | Not confidence | 11 | (5.3) |
Slightly confident | 29 | (14.1) | |
Somewhat confident | 42 | (20.4) | |
Quite confident | 88 | (42.7) | |
Extremely confident | 36 | (17.5) |
Always | Often | Sometimes | Rare | Never | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Identify risk factors for fall | ||||||
Gender | Male | 32 (36.8) | 36 (41.4) | 11 (12.6) | 6 (6.9) | 2 (2.3) |
Female | 43 (36.1) | 37 (31.1) | 26 (21.8) | 5 (4.2) | 8 (6.7) | |
Specialty | Musculoskeletal | 21 (35.6) | 16 (27.1) | 9 (15.3) | 5 (8.5) | 8 (13.6) |
Non-musculoskeletal | 54 (36.7) | 57 (38.8) | 28 (19.0) | 6 (4.1) | 2 (1.4) | |
Employment sector | Academic | 9 (28.1) | 9 (28.1) | 6 (18.8) | 2 (6.3) | 6 (18.8) |
Non-academic | 66 (37.9) | 64 (36.8) | 31 (17.8) | 9 (5.2) | 4 (2.3) | |
Experience | Fewer than 10 years | 66 (37.7) | 63 (36.0) | 31 (17.7) | 8 (4.6) | 7 (4.0) |
More than 10 years | 9 (29.0) | 10 (32.3) | 6 (19.4) | 3 (9.7) | 3 (9.7) | |
Qualification | Postgraduate | 18 (31.0) | 17 (29.3) | 10 (17.2) | 5 (8.6) | 8 (13.8) |
Undergraduate | 57 (38.5) | 56 (37.8) | 27 (18.2) | 6 (4.1) | 2 (1.4) | |
Provide intervention to Fall | ||||||
Gender | Male | 36 (41.4) | 27 (31.0) | 16 (18.4) | 6 (6.9) | 2 (2.3) |
Female | 38 (31.9) | 41 (34.5) | 25 (21.0) | 8 (6.7) | 7 (5.9) | |
Specialty | Musculoskeletal | 22 (37.3) | 15 (25.4) | 9 (15.3) | 7 (11.9) | 6 (10.2) |
Non-musculoskeletal | 52 (35.4) | 53 (36.1) | 32 (21.8) | 7 (4.8) | 3 (2.0) | |
Employment sector | Academic | 9 (28.1) | 10 (31.3) | 5 (15.6) | 3 (9.4) | 5 (15.6) |
Non-academic | 65 (37.4) | 58 (33.3) | 36 (20.7) | 11 (6.3) | 4 (2.3) | |
Experience | Fewer than 10 years | 65 (37.1) | 58 (33.1) | 37 (21.1) | 11 (6.3) | 4 (2.3) |
More than 10 years | 9 (29.0) | 10 (32.3) | 4 (12.9) | 3 (9.7) | 5 (16.1) | |
Qualification | Postgraduate | 20 (34.5) | 18 (31.0) | 6 (10.3) | 6 (10.3) | 8 (13.8) |
Undergraduate | 54 (36.5) | 50 (33.8) | 35 (23.6) | 8 (5.4) | 1 (0.7) | |
Educate Patient on Fall Prevention | ||||||
Gender | Male | 42 (48.3) | 25 (28.7) | 11 (12.6) | 5 (5.7) | 4 (4.6) |
Female | 44 (37.0) | 39 (32.8) | 22 (18.5) | 6 (5.0) | 8 (6.7) | |
Employment sector | Academic | 10 (31.3) | 9 (28.1) | 5 (15.6) | 3 (9.4) | 5 (15.6) |
Non-academic | 76 (43.7) | 55 (31.6) | 28 (16.1) | 8 (4.6) | 7 (4.0) | |
Specialty | Musculoskeletal | 25 (42.4) | 16 (27.1) | 6 (10.2) | 5 (8.5) | 7 (11.9) |
Non-musculoskeletal | 61 (41.5) | 48 (32.7) | 27 (18.4) | 6 (4.1) | 5 (3.4) | |
Experience | Fewer than 10 years | 74 (42.3) | 54 (30.9) | 31 (17.7) | 10 (5.7) | 6 (3.4) |
more than 10 years | 12 (38.7) | 10 (32.3) | 2 (6.5) | 1 (3.2) | 6 (19.4) | |
Qualification | Postgraduate | 22 (37.9) | 16 (27.6) | 7 (12.1) | 5 (8.6) | 8 (13.8) |
Undergraduate | 64 (43.2) | 48 (32.4) | 26 (17.6) | 6 (4.1) | 4 (2.7) |
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Alsobhi, M.; Gmmash, A.; Aldhabi, R.; Almaddah, M.R.; Ameen, A.; Almotairi, F.; Basuodan, R.; Khan, F. Physical Therapists’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Barriers Regarding Fall Screening and Prevention among Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-Sectional Study. Healthcare 2024, 12, 718. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12070718
Alsobhi M, Gmmash A, Aldhabi R, Almaddah MR, Ameen A, Almotairi F, Basuodan R, Khan F. Physical Therapists’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Barriers Regarding Fall Screening and Prevention among Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-Sectional Study. Healthcare. 2024; 12(7):718. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12070718
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlsobhi, Mashael, Afnan Gmmash, Rawan Aldhabi, Muataz R. Almaddah, Alaa Ameen, Fae Almotairi, Reem Basuodan, and Fayaz Khan. 2024. "Physical Therapists’ Attitudes, Beliefs, and Barriers Regarding Fall Screening and Prevention among Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Cross-Sectional Study" Healthcare 12, no. 7: 718. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12070718