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Creencias Epistemológicas y Conceptos de Salud Terapéutica de Estudiantes y Profesionales

de Fisioterapia

Sebastián Guzman Monroy, Jennifer Serrano Leal, Nicolas Lara Gonzalez

Fisioterapia, Fundación Universitaria María Cano, Neiva-Huila

9:01 Epistemología

Carlos Urdiola

26 de mayo del 2023

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The study focuses on the development of knowledge in the health care field, which often includes

ambiguous and tentative information. Both students and practitioners of physical therapy are faced with

the task of constantly assessing the validity of such knowledge in their daily practice. Epistemological

beliefs, i.e., beliefs about the nature of knowledge, and therapeutic concepts in health are factors that

influence how people handle knowledge in health. However, little is known about how these factors

develop over the course of individuals' careers. In this study, we investigated the concepts of

epistemological beliefs and therapeutic health of physical therapy students during their training and of

professionals already established in the profession.

total of 83 students and 84 professionals participated in this study, with 114 out of 167 (68%)

participants being female. The evidence-based practices (EB) and therapeutic health concepts differed

based on the participants' training status. Professionals exhibited more sophisticated EB in both

physiotherapy knowledge (F(2, 164) = 6.74, P = 0.002, η2 p = 0.08) and medical knowledge (F(2, 164) =
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5.93, P = 0.003, η2 p = 0.07) compared to the students. Additionally, high values in a biopsychosocial

therapeutic health concept were observed at an early training phase (F(2, 164) = 5.39, P = 0.005, η2 p =

0.06), whereas elevated values in a biomedical concept did not occur until individuals' professional life

(F(2, 164) = 10.99, P < 0.001, η2 p = 0.12)

This article discusses a study that examines the epistemological beliefs and therapeutic health

concepts of physiotherapy students and professionals. The results show that professionals have more

sophisticated beliefs than students, and that the development of these beliefs is not restricted to a person's

own discipline. Physiotherapists were found to be more biopsychosocial-oriented than biomedical-

oriented, and advanced students had already achieved high scores in the biopsychosocial concept. The

study suggests that including real challenges of professional life in health care training would enable

students to apply various perspectives to health problems and could also facilitate inter-professional work.

The article concludes by encouraging authors to submit their manuscripts to BioMed Central for

convenient online submission, thorough peer review, and immediate publication on acceptance (Martina

Bientzle, 2014)

Referencias
Martina Bientzle, U. B. (Ed.). (01 de octubre de 2014). Creencias epistemologicas y conceptos de salud

terapeutica de estudiantes y profesionales de fisioterapia . Obtenido de

https://springerlink.bibliofumc.elogim.com/article/10.1186/1472-6920-14-208
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