Physiotherapy Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire

Psychometric Evaluation of the Spanish Version of the Physiotherapy Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire: Multicenter Study

A greater need for user-centered care and an evidence-based clinical practice are factors that emphasize critical thinking as a professional competence. Furthermore, critical thinking is an essential competence that allows clinical reasoning, problem solving and decision-making in the critical clinical practice of all specializations in Physiotherapy. However, no instrument has been found that specifically assesses the critical thinking of physiotherapists in their clinical practice.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Critical Thinking

Detailed Description

Multicenter, descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational study in two phases. Phase 1: adaptation of the N-CT-4P to the population of physiotherapists; Phase 2: analysis of the psychometric properties of the new instrument and levels of critical thinking through a cross-sectional study. Sociodemographic and professional variables and variables referring to the measurement of critical thinking (total score of the questionnaire and of each of its dimensions) will be collected. Its psychometric properties, internal consistency, repeatability analysis, discriminant validity and construct validity will be analyzed through confirmatory factor analysis and a multiple regression analysis will be performed.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 235

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Spain
  • Barcelona, Spain, 08035
    • Hospital Vall d'Hebron

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 67 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Health centers

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Be a Graduate, Diploma or Bachelor of Physiotherapy
• Have an employment contract, as a care physiotherapist at the time of answering the questionnaire.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have a contractual continuity of less than 15 days.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
To validate in the physiotherapist population the instrument Nursing Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire (N-CT-4 Practice) in its version Physiotherapy Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice Questionnaire (PT-CT-4 Practice).	Assessment of metric properties	The questionnaire will be self-administered and the estimated response time is less than 15 minutes.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Beatriz Hernández-Méndez, MSc, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute; Study Chair: Esperanza Zuriguel-Pérez, PhD, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 2, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 31, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): August 11, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 17, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 17, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): September 28, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 25, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 11, 2025
• Last Verified: January 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: PT-CT-4 Practice