Physical therapy student's attitude on home health care: a case study from Physical Therpay Department, Khon Kaen University

Abstract

Home health care is an essential role of physical therapists. The appropriate viewpoint on home health care should be encouraged to students who will be our future physical therapists. Based on the concepts of health problem management with holistic approach and humanized health care, a 7-week learning activity about home health care on neurological patients was arranged for the fourth year physical therapy students, Khon Kaen University. The aim of this study was to evaluate the student’s attitude on this learning activity. Fifteen students were divided into 4 groups to be responsible for 4 neurological patients for 7 weeks. The student’s attitude on the learning activity was evaluated at the end of the activity by means of 2 questionnaires. The results revealed that the 7-week learning activity was greatly beneficial. It also provided happiness, ranked “much” to “the most”, to the students. Therefore, this learning activity should be continually conducted and assessed.