Gender Medicine and Physiotherapy: A Need for Education. Findings from an Italian National Survey
Background: Gender medicine permeates all sectors of medicine, from prevention to treatment and rehabilitation; it aims to customize the care path, ensuring equity in the access to health care system services. It is unclear to what extent physiotherapists’ treatment choices align with gender medicin...
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| description | Background: Gender medicine permeates all sectors of medicine, from prevention to treatment and rehabilitation; it aims to customize the care path, ensuring equity in the access to health care system services. It is unclear to what extent physiotherapists’ treatment choices align with gender medicine principles. The aim of this survey is to detect the need of Italian physiotherapists to deepen knowledge in gender medicine. Materials and methods: An 18-item survey assessed the characteristics of responders about knowledge of gender medicine. An online survey was performed in 2020 using SurveyMonkey Software. Data were analyzed by statistical regression. Results: A total of 617 physiotherapists voluntarily participated in the study (53.84% of the target population). The majority of responders (68.4%) declared having general information about gender medicine, but 55.43% of them claimed to have heard of it but did not know properly what gender medicine was about; 92.38% of the physiotherapists believed that they needed training to acquire knowledge in gender medicine. Conclusions: Gender equity matters for health. Moderate knowledge of gender medicine’ principles and modest application of these findings were used in clinical practice of physiotherapy. Physiotherapists declared that they need training in gender medicine. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ea4dde42503a4b33a6895a06a74259a22023-11-20T22:41:07ZengMDPI AGHealthcare2227-90322020-11-018451610.3390/healthcare8040516Gender Medicine and Physiotherapy: A Need for Education. Findings from an Italian National SurveyMattia Bisconti0Fabrizio Brindisino1Filippo Maselli2Department of Medicine and Health Science “Vincenzo Tiberio”, University of Molise, c/o Cardarelli Hospital, C/da Tappino, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDepartment of Medicine and Health Science “Vincenzo Tiberio”, University of Molise, c/o Cardarelli Hospital, C/da Tappino, 86100 Campobasso, ItalyDepartment of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetic and Maternal Infantile Sciences (DINOGMI), University of Genova—Campus of Savona, 17100 Savona, ItalyBackground: Gender medicine permeates all sectors of medicine, from prevention to treatment and rehabilitation; it aims to customize the care path, ensuring equity in the access to health care system services. It is unclear to what extent physiotherapists’ treatment choices align with gender medicine principles. The aim of this survey is to detect the need of Italian physiotherapists to deepen knowledge in gender medicine. Materials and methods: An 18-item survey assessed the characteristics of responders about knowledge of gender medicine. An online survey was performed in 2020 using SurveyMonkey Software. Data were analyzed by statistical regression. Results: A total of 617 physiotherapists voluntarily participated in the study (53.84% of the target population). The majority of responders (68.4%) declared having general information about gender medicine, but 55.43% of them claimed to have heard of it but did not know properly what gender medicine was about; 92.38% of the physiotherapists believed that they needed training to acquire knowledge in gender medicine. Conclusions: Gender equity matters for health. Moderate knowledge of gender medicine’ principles and modest application of these findings were used in clinical practice of physiotherapy. Physiotherapists declared that they need training in gender medicine.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/8/4/516gender medicinephysiotherapyknowledgephysiotherapy’ clinical practicebeliefs |
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| title | Gender Medicine and Physiotherapy: A Need for Education. Findings from an Italian National Survey |
| title_full | Gender Medicine and Physiotherapy: A Need for Education. Findings from an Italian National Survey |
| title_fullStr | Gender Medicine and Physiotherapy: A Need for Education. Findings from an Italian National Survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender Medicine and Physiotherapy: A Need for Education. Findings from an Italian National Survey |
| title_short | Gender Medicine and Physiotherapy: A Need for Education. Findings from an Italian National Survey |
| title_sort | gender medicine and physiotherapy a need for education findings from an italian national survey |
| topic | gender medicine physiotherapy knowledge physiotherapy’ clinical practice beliefs |
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