Gender Medicine and Physiotherapy: A Need for Education. Findings from an Italian National Survey.

ABSTRACT: 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. 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. 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 informatio

SUBMITTER: Bisconti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7711877 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature