Effect of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Resource Consumption on Therapeutic Strategies Chosen by Physiotherapists: Virtual Patient Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a growing interest in the influence of variables that may negatively influence the reasoning of health care professionals, namely intolerance of uncertainty, defined as health care professionals' difficulty tolerating ambiguous situations that often trigger discomfort, overtesting, and suboptimal treatment choices, and resource consumption, defined as the ordering of unnecessary diagnostic tests that can waste resources and compromise decision-making.

Objective

Our purpose was to assess the influence of intolerance of uncertainty and resource consumption on the chosen therapeutic strategy.

Methods

A total of 127 physiotherapists were challenged to play a simulation game and choose a therapeutic strategy for 3 cases of low back pain of increasing di

SUBMITTER: Brun C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12673305 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature