Knowledge, perceptions and attitudes of final year medical, occupational therapy and sport science students regarding physiotherapy, in KwaZulu Natal.

Interprofessional knowledge and perceptions of selected South African healthcare practitioners towards each other

“…Comparative study without concurrent controls 8 Louw (2005), [20] Naidoo (2008), [21] Keyter (2010), [5] Puckree et al (2011), [22] Van Staden et al (2011), [19] Ellapen et al (2016), [25] Manillal and Rowe (2016), [24] Rowe (2016) [23]…”

“…The disjointed nature of the consensus is primarily due to a lack of interprofessional knowledge, which is coupled with certain negative perceptions among the various abovementioned disciplines. [5,[20][21][22] The profession of physiotherapy is generally negative towards the establishment of collaborative relationships with chiropractors and biokineticists owing to their perception that these professionals are trespassing on their SoP and pilfering their patients. [22,24] Medical doctors and students are not generally mindful and appreciative of the individual SoP of physiotherapists and chiropractors; this has produced animosity between these professions, thereby creating obstacles to the formulation of a multidisciplinary medical rehabilitation team.…”

“…[5,[20][21][22] The profession of physiotherapy is generally negative towards the establishment of collaborative relationships with chiropractors and biokineticists owing to their perception that these professionals are trespassing on their SoP and pilfering their patients. [22,24] Medical doctors and students are not generally mindful and appreciative of the individual SoP of physiotherapists and chiropractors; this has produced animosity between these professions, thereby creating obstacles to the formulation of a multidisciplinary medical rehabilitation team. [22,24] Chiropractors, speech and hearing therapists, dieticians, biokineticists and occupational therapists are favourably inclined to interprofessional collaboration owing to their sound interprofessional knowledge of each other's SoP.…”

“…[22,24] Medical doctors and students are not generally mindful and appreciative of the individual SoP of physiotherapists and chiropractors; this has produced animosity between these professions, thereby creating obstacles to the formulation of a multidisciplinary medical rehabilitation team. [22,24] Chiropractors, speech and hearing therapists, dieticians, biokineticists and occupational therapists are favourably inclined to interprofessional collaboration owing to their sound interprofessional knowledge of each other's SoP. [4,8,19,21] The literature presents no evidence of the interprofessional knowledge and perceptions that medical doctors, nurses and physiotherapists may have regarding biokineticists and occupational therapists.…”

Exposure to, Knowledge of, and Interest in Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy as Career Options

“…However, only a few studies have examined the ways in which students from underrepresented minority (URM) populations are exposed to occupational therapists and physical therapists and whether that exposure generates reliable career information and interest. In fact, most of the available literature that examines how people are exposed to these professions is at least 10 years old (Kallus, Noble, Bezner, & Keely, 1999;Rozier, Gilkeson, & Hamilton, 1992;Zayas & McGuigan, 2006) or focuses on subjects from outside of the United States (Dissanayaka & Banneheka, 2014;Puckree, Harinarain, Ramdath, Singh, & Ras, 2011). These facts warrant an investigation into the awareness and knowledge of, exposure to, and interest in the OT and PT professions among high school and undergraduate college students from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds.…”