| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Ageism among health professionals
— a comparison of clinical educators and students in physical and occupational therapy | | Author(s) | Lynne C Giles, Janis E Paterson, Sarnia J Butler |
| Journal title | Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics, vol 21, no 2, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 15-26 |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Service, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. http://www.HaworthPress.com |
| Keywords | Ageism ; Students ; Teachers ; Physiotherapy ; Occupational therapy ; Comparison ; New Zealand. |
| Annotation | Negative attitudes towards ageing can be a substantial obstacle to the delivery of quality health care to older adults. This New Zealand study compared the attitudes towards older people and knowledge of ageing held by clinical educators and students in physiotherapy and occupational therapy. 175 participants completed a questionnaire that consisted of the Kogan scale, Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz (version 1) (FAQ1) and questions concerning social interaction with older people and demographic information. The clinical educators of both professional groups had significantly higher attitudinal scores than the student participants. After controlling for the effect of age, clinical educators had a significantly lower negative bias on the FAQ1 than the students. Significantly higher positive bias scores on the FAQ1 were reported by the occupational therapy students and clinical educators in comparison to their physiotherapy counterparts. A stronger curriculum emphasis throughout the academic programme, together with increased clinical placements in settings of care for older people, may be necessary to better equip students for the workplace. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040302204 A |
| Classmark | B:TOB: XN: XP: LOA: LOH: 48: 7YN |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|