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Future Challenges for Physical Therapy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Physical Therapists in Spain
This qualitative exploratory study addressed the perspectives of Spanish physical therapists (PTs) regarding (a) the organization of their work during the first wave of the pandemic; (b) their role within the intensive care units (ICUs); (c) management of COVID-19 survivors; (d) potential future cha...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444118 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168368 |
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author | Palacios-Ceña, Domingo Fernández-de-las-Peñas, César Florencio, Lidiane L. Palacios-Ceña, María de-la-Llave-Rincón, Ana I. |
author_facet | Palacios-Ceña, Domingo Fernández-de-las-Peñas, César Florencio, Lidiane L. Palacios-Ceña, María de-la-Llave-Rincón, Ana I. |
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description | This qualitative exploratory study addressed the perspectives of Spanish physical therapists (PTs) regarding (a) the organization of their work during the first wave of the pandemic; (b) their role within the intensive care units (ICUs); (c) management of COVID-19 survivors; (d) potential future challenges identified for the physical therapy profession. Thirty PTs who had worked at a National Public Hospital in Madrid during the first COVID-19 outbreak were recruited by purposeful sampling and snowball techniques. In-depth interviews and researcher field notes were used to collect data. Interviews were transcribed verbatim. An inductive thematic analysis was used to identify emerging themes. After identifying 1110 codes, four themes emerged. Throughout the first wave of the pandemic, the role and work of PTs in hospitals experienced a change. These changes took place at their organizational level, affecting the distribution of PTs in the hospital, and the role of PTs in front-line COVID units such as ICUs, as well as direct management of outpatients at the onset of the pandemic, and after discharge from the ICUs. This situation has led to PTs foreseeing challenges and developing new expectations concerning their role and the physical therapy profession in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-83934002021-08-28 Future Challenges for Physical Therapy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Physical Therapists in Spain Palacios-Ceña, Domingo Fernández-de-las-Peñas, César Florencio, Lidiane L. Palacios-Ceña, María de-la-Llave-Rincón, Ana I. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article This qualitative exploratory study addressed the perspectives of Spanish physical therapists (PTs) regarding (a) the organization of their work during the first wave of the pandemic; (b) their role within the intensive care units (ICUs); (c) management of COVID-19 survivors; (d) potential future challenges identified for the physical therapy profession. Thirty PTs who had worked at a National Public Hospital in Madrid during the first COVID-19 outbreak were recruited by purposeful sampling and snowball techniques. In-depth interviews and researcher field notes were used to collect data. Interviews were transcribed verbatim. An inductive thematic analysis was used to identify emerging themes. After identifying 1110 codes, four themes emerged. Throughout the first wave of the pandemic, the role and work of PTs in hospitals experienced a change. These changes took place at their organizational level, affecting the distribution of PTs in the hospital, and the role of PTs in front-line COVID units such as ICUs, as well as direct management of outpatients at the onset of the pandemic, and after discharge from the ICUs. This situation has led to PTs foreseeing challenges and developing new expectations concerning their role and the physical therapy profession in the future. MDPI 2021-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8393400/ /pubmed/34444118 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168368 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Palacios-Ceña, Domingo Fernández-de-las-Peñas, César Florencio, Lidiane L. Palacios-Ceña, María de-la-Llave-Rincón, Ana I. Future Challenges for Physical Therapy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Physical Therapists in Spain |
title | Future Challenges for Physical Therapy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Physical Therapists in Spain |
title_full | Future Challenges for Physical Therapy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Physical Therapists in Spain |
title_fullStr | Future Challenges for Physical Therapy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Physical Therapists in Spain |
title_full_unstemmed | Future Challenges for Physical Therapy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Physical Therapists in Spain |
title_short | Future Challenges for Physical Therapy during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study on the Experience of Physical Therapists in Spain |
title_sort | future challenges for physical therapy during and after the covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative study on the experience of physical therapists in spain |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8393400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34444118 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18168368 |
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