EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDE, JOB SATISFACTION AND BURNOUT LEVELS OF PHYSIOTHERAPISTS

Our study was planned to investigate the professional attitudes and satisfaction levels of physiotherapists.

It has affected each professional group in different ways. The effects on health workers such as doctors and nurses have been studied in various studies.

However, there are no studies on the effects on physiotherapists. After individuals start their profession In time, they develop an attitude towards their profession through cognitive and emotional orientations. Level of interest in the profession, academic education activities related to the profession, working places, the institution where they work, the level of professional satisfaction of physiotherapists determinant factors of the disease. This study is a prospective questionnaire study. A questionnaire created through Google forms The survey will be conducted by reaching physiotherapists. The survey will start after ethics commission permission is obtained. Age, gender of individuals, year of graduation, level of education, marital status, institution, position/task, occupation of the manager of the organisation, most difficult patient group, the professional field he/she feels most deficient in, the number of training-courses he/she has taken related to the profession after graduation, after graduation The number of congresses-seminars-symposiums related to the profession, the status of following current developments will be questioned; attitude towards physiotherapy profession scale, Minnesota job satisfaction scale, motivation feedback questionnaire, Maslach burnout scale will be applied 1 time. The data will be analysed with SPSS 21.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA).

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Health Personnel Attitude; Job Satisfaction; Professional Burnout
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Attitude Scale towards Physiotherapy Profession; Other: Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale; Other: Maslach Burnout Scale

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 140

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Kirikkale, Turkey, 71450
    • Kırıkkale University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The study will include individuals who graduated from the department of physiotherapy and rehabilitation and are actively working as physiotherapists. Individuals will be informed about the study and will be asked to answer the questionnaires via Google forms. Individuals will be asked to approve the consent form.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

To have a bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation To be actively practicing the profession of physiotherapist in any institution

Exclusion Criteria:

Graduated but not working as a physiotherapist.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort

Intervention / Treatment

Physiotherapist

Other: Attitude Scale towards Physiotherapy Profession; It is a questionnaire that evaluates the attitudes of physiotherapists with 35 questions under 3 headings: professional satisfaction, qualifications required by the profession, and concerns about the profession. It was developed in 2018 by Begümhan Turhan. In this scale, which is a Likert-type questionnaire, each question is scored between 0 and 5 points. The minimum score that can be obtained from the scale is 35 and the maximum score is 175. A high score indicates that physiotherapists have a positive attitude towards their profession; Other: Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale; It is a 20-item Likert-type questionnaire. Scores less than 3 points indicate low job satisfaction. Turkish validity and reliability studies were conducted. The validity and reliability study in Turkey was conducted by Baycan and the Cronbach's alpha value of the scale was found to be 0.77. It is a tool consisting of 20 items with features that reveal internal and external job satisfaction factors. The neutral satisfaction score of the scale is 3. If the score obtained from the scale is less than 3, job satisfaction is considered low, and if it is greater than 3, job satisfaction is considered high.; Other: Maslach Burnout Scale; The Burnout Inventory, which was developed by Maslach and Jackson (1981) and introduced to the literature under Maslach's name, is a seven-point Likert-type scale and consists of a total of 22 items and three subscales. Among these subscales, emotional exhaustion subscale consists of 9 items, depersonalisation subscale consists of 5 items and personal accomplishment subscale consists of 8 items. Scale items are scored as '1 never' and '7 always'. The Turkish validity and reliability of the questionnaire was conducted by Burhan Çapri. It is a 5-point Likert-type scale measured with 0: never 4: always options. High scores are expected

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Maslach Burnout Scale	Total score is calculated and used in the analysis	5 minute

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale	Total score is calculated and used in the analysis	5 minute
Attitude Scale Towards Physiotherapy Profession	Total score is calculated and used in the analysis	5 minute

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Kırıkkale University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 6, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 15, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): October 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 12, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 12, 2024
• First Posted (Estimated): November 13, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimated): November 13, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 12, 2024
• Last Verified: November 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Occupational Stress; Behavioral Symptoms; Stress, Psychological; Occupational Diseases; Burnout, Psychological; Burnout, Professional
• Other Study ID Numbers: Gurbuz06

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No