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Patients' perspectives of patient-centredness as important in musculoskeletal physiotherapy interactions: a
Martin O Kidd1, Carol H Bond, Melanie L Bell
1School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand. martin.kidd@otago.ac.nz
Objective:
To determine patients' perspectives of components of patient-centred physiotherapy and its essential elements.
Design:
Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews to explore patients' judgements of patient-centred physiotherapy. Grounded theory was used to determine common themes among the interviews and develop theory iteratively from the data.
Setting:
Musculoskeletal outpatient physiotherapy at a provincial city hospital.
Participants:
Eight individuals who had recently received physiotherapy.
Results:
Five categories of characteristics relating to patient-centred physiotherapy were generated from the data: the ability to communicate; confidence; knowledge and professionalism; an understanding of people and an ability to relate; and transparency of progress and outcome. These categories did not tend to occur in isolation, but formed a composite picture of patient-centred physiotherapy from the patient's perspective.
Conclusions And Practice Implications:
This research elucidates and reinforces the importance of patient-centredness in physiotherapy, and suggests that patients may be the best judges of the affective, non-technical aspects of a given healthcare episode.
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