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- Epistemic beliefs as a determinant in evidence-based practice in physiotherapy: a multi-country (Europe) cross-sectional online survey studyPublication . Beenena, Paul Christiaan; Filiputtic, Dario; Meyerd, Erna Rosenlund; Carballo-Costa, Lidia; Almeida, Patrícia; Alves Lopes, António; Wijcheng, Joost Egbertus Van; Castro-Caldas, AlexandrePurpose: This article assumes that, in order to improve evidence-based practice in physiotherapy, practitioners need sophisticated epistemic beliefs. Epistemic beliefs, or how physiotherapists view knowledge and how they come to this knowledge, are an important factor. A high sophistication of epistemic beliefs is linked to better handling of the complexity and uncertainty of daily practice and the variety of evidence resources associated with this practice. Materials and methods: This study explored the epistemic beliefs of physiotherapists in 10 different countries in Europe using an online survey: the Connotative Aspects of Epistemic Beliefs (CAEB). Results and conclusions: The study resulted in 1419 surveys. The epistemic beliefs proved to be of little difference between countries, showing a low to moderate sophistication in epistemic beliefs. Given the similar results between countries, this study also suggested the possibility of collaborating internationally in developing an epistemology in physiotherapy that is more suited to the complexity of current demands on health systems. The development of sophistication in epistemic beliefs should be firmly on the agenda for the education of physiotherapists.
- Understanding the landscape of technology in the physiotherapy education: a descriptive analysis through bibliometricsPublication . Alves Lopes, António; Carballo-Costa, LidiaBackground: The usage of technology, in Physiotherapy practice and education, is still growing, with a possible impact also on research. However, the increase of the number of scientific publications make it difficult to know the scientific structure and development of a field. Visualization techniques based on bibliometric data are useful for the understanding of scientific fields. Methods: This is a bibliometric, descriptive and retrospective study. We identified publications from Web of Science and Pubmed databases related to technology in physiotherapy education. From the titles and abstracts of these publications, authors selected the main terms related to the field, extracted by VOSviewer software, to create a visualization of the most important topics studied in the literature. Results: A total of 137 publications were identified in WOS and 648 in Pubmed. After clusterization of the two groups of terms, we could identify that, in the case of Pubmed, the main associations with technology seem to be its use in the context of teaching/learning of the intervention in Physiotherapy, use as a tool to facilitate the patient education, for the prescription and implementation of exercise programs and its use for use in the various stages of the Physiotherapy process. In relation to WOS database we could identify similar patterns with topics like teaching/learning of the intervention in Physiotherapy and Physiotherapy process, but also a big emphasis in the association between the topics Education and Technology. In both databases we could see that this is a recent topic, starting in Pubmed after 2006. Discussion: In both databases the scope of the analysis revealed different topics covered by Pubmed and WOS databases. This is related to their coverage and suggests the need for using more than only one. Their distinct features make it impossible to compare other characteristics of the field as main productive countries or institutions. Conclusion: In our search, although WOS and Pubmed have different topic coverage, most of them are related to use of technology applied to the context of intervention (including several steps of the Physiotherapy Process) but also in the education of students and patients.