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KMID : 0357220120240050370
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Journal of Korean Society Physical Therapy
2012 Volume.24 No. 5 p.370 ~ p.376
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A Pilot Study on Cognitive Styles in Clinical Reasoning Based on Clinical Specialty and Experience by Korean Physical Therapists
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Ryu Young-Uk
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study examined whether there are differences in cognitive styles between orthopedic and neurological physical therapists, and whether these differences change with clinical experience in clinical reasoning.
Methods: A survey study was conducted on 88 orthopedic and neurologic physical therapists working in South Korea. The survey items used by May and Dennis (1991) were translated, and only those items related to data-gathering and information-processing were used.
Results: The cognitive style was similar in the orthopedic and neurologic physical therapists, but the clinical experience affected the cognitive styles of clinical reasoning. Physical therapists with more than 60 months clinical experience responded most positively to the preceptive and systematic styles in clinical reasoning.
Conclusion: These results suggest that physical therapy education should provide physical therapy students with a clinical reasoning process related specifically to a particular clinical field.
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KEYWORD
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Physical therapy, Clinical reasoning, Data gathering, Information processing
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