Yoona Choi, Sunjoo Kang, Jin Sun Kim, Insook Kwon, Myungken Lee
School Health Needs Assessment in Chanchamayo, Peru: A Health Promoting School Project
Frontiers in public health
provision physiotherapy services using telehealth drastically increased since covid19 pandemic continues utilized clinical practice suggesting telehealth physiotherapy become common practice prior research explored attitudes physiotherapists many years inperson clinical experience toward telehealth however little known emerging workforces attitudes study aims explore physiotherapy students attitudes toward use telehealth clinical practice crosssectional online survey physiotherapy students enrolled doctor physiotherapy program macquarie university november 2022 february 2023 participants rated level agreement across 11 statements regarding telehealth use physiotherapy clinical practice using 5point likert scale ranging strongly disagree strongly agree participants answered two openended questions regarding might use telehealth clinical practice physiotherapist believe physiotherapists might reluctant use telehealth clinical practice total 118 participants completed survey response rate 53 overall participants believed telehealth would continue offered postcovid19 86 n 101 participants would use form telehealth clinical practice 82 n 96 believe blended approach would beneficial patients 84 n 99 interested training telehealth 90 n 107 identified six broad themes including accessibility subsequent consultations inability provide manual therapies limited trainingeducation perceived ineffectiveness digital literacy patient overall physiotherapy students believe telehealth continue offered clinical practice form part contemporary physiotherapy practice interested training upskill delivery care via telehealth given continued use students demand future training may time reimagine inclusion telehealth education training entrylevel physiotherapy curriculum