Validity and reproducibility of a tool for assessing clinical competencies in physical therapy students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The evaluation of competencies in the clinical field is essential for health professionals, as it allows the acquisition of these competencies to be tracked. The objective of this study was to create and evaluate the validity and reliability of a tool for measuring clinical competencies in physical therapy (PT) students to assess the quality of their performance in a professional context.

Methods

A descriptive study was designed. The Measurement Tool for Clinical Competencies in PT (MTCCP) was developed based on the evaluation of 39 experts: 15 clinicians and 24 instructors. The content validity was evaluated using the Content Validity Index (CVI). Three professors were invited to apply the tool to 10 students. Cronbach's alpha, exploratory factor analysis, and th

SUBMITTER: Torres-Narvaez MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6260878 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature