Greek Physiotherapy Students' Attitudes Towards Psychiatry and Mental Health

• Sponsor: University of Thessaly (Other)
• Overall Status: Not yet recruiting
• CT.gov ID: NCT05872399
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 200
• Anticipated Duration (Days): 30

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The main purpose of this study will be to investigate what are the attitudes of Greek physiotherapy students who belong to one of the Higher Educational Institutions of Greece and the correlation of these attitudes with certain demographic characteristics that will be defined.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Students; Physical Therapy	Other: Attitudes Towards Psychiatry - 30

Detailed Description

A link will be created via google forms, which will be made available to undergraduate physiotherapy students of all the departments of the country's universities. The Attitudes Towards Psychiatry - 30 scale will be used to explore students' attitudes towards psychiatry and mental health. Participants through a mandatory field will consent to participate in the study, having read all the necessary information at the beginning. Then the necessary section will be created in which the participant will answer the questions of the assessment scale. The Attitudes Towards Psychiatry - 30 scale has not been standardized in Greek and for this reason it will be translated forward and backward by 2 independent researchers. After the completion of the study, the researchers will collect the results and draw conclusions based on the necessary statistical analyses. The data collection will be done for about one month, the duration of data processing and archiving will be about 6 months.

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Anticipated Enrollment: 200 participants
• Observational Model: Cohort
• Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
• Official Title: Investigation of Greek Physiotherapy Students' Attitudes Towards Psychiatry and Mental Health
• Anticipated Study Start Date: May 31, 2023
• Anticipated Primary Completion Date: Jun 30, 2023
• Anticipated Study Completion Date: Jun 30, 2023

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Physiotherapy students The group will consist of Greek physiotherapy undergraduate students.	Other: Attitudes Towards Psychiatry - 30; The participants will answer their beliefs in 30 statements about psychiatry and mental health.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Attitudes Towards Psychiatry - 30 [Only one time, at baseline.]

   The scale will be completed by the participants themselves.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• physiotherapy student in one of the Universities of Greece

Exclusion Criteria:

• not a physiotherapy student at one of the country's Universities

Contacts and Locations

Locations

No locations specified.

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of Thessaly

Investigators

• Study Director: Phoebe Speis, Dr., Αcademic fellow

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

• Connaughton J, Gibson W. Physiotherapy Students' Attitudes toward Psychiatry and Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Study. Physiother Can. 2016;68(2):172-178. doi: 10.3138/ptc.2015-18E.
• Probst M, Peuskens J. Attitudes of Flemish physiotherapy students towards mental health and psychiatry. Physiotherapy. 2010 Mar;96(1):44-51. doi: 10.1016/j.physio.2009.08.006. Epub 2009 Oct 24.

• Responsible Party: Georgios Marios Kyriakatis, Undergraduate Student, Department of Physiothrapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05872399
• Other Study ID Numbers: 535, 2/5/2023
• First Posted: May 24, 2023
• Last Update Posted: May 25, 2023
• Last Verified: May 1, 2023

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product: No

Study Results

No Results Posted as of May 25, 2023