ERIC Number: EJ1411540
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-2325-3193
EISSN: EISSN-2325-3215
The Path to Translating Focus of Attention Research into Canadian Physiotherapy, Part 4: Sequentially Linking Assessment Outcomes into a Chain of Evidence Supporting the Workshop
Julia Hussien; Liza Khodko; Cooper Macdonald; Diane Ste-Marie
Journal of Motor Learning and Development, v11 n3 p497-519 2023
In previous research, Canadian physiotherapists identified barriers to effective external focus promotion and recommended the delivery of a focus of attention workshop as a solution. Accordingly, the current research entailed the virtual delivery of such a workshop, consisting of asynchronous Website modules followed by a synchronous group session, to 15 Canadian physiotherapists working mainly with musculoskeletal rehabilitation clients. Assessment of the workshop outcomes was guided by constructs of social cognitive and adult learning theory, and organized based on the four levels of the Kirkpatrick model (KP1-Reaction, KP2-Learning, KP3-Behavior, and KP4-Results). Specifically, participants received links to questionnaire packages at three time points: 1-week preworkshop, immediately postworkshop, and 1-week postworkshop. Results showed that participants (a) reported high satisfaction, engagement, and perceived relevance of the workshop (KP1); (b) experienced significant improvements to their knowledge, skills, attitudes, and self-efficacy from pre- to immediately postworkshop (KP2); and (c) self-reported increases to their external focus promotion in the week following the workshop (modified KP3), and perceived improvements to their clients' outcomes as a result of this external focus encouragement (modified KP4). Taken together, these results serve as a chain of evidence supporting the usefulness of the workshop in translating focus of attention findings into Canadian physiotherapy.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Therapy, Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations Education, Workshops, Outcomes of Education, Attention, Rehabilitation, Knowledge Level, Motor Development, Perceptual Motor Learning, Electronic Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Synchronous Communication
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