Competency and professional activities of pediatric rehabilitation therapists in three provinces/cities of East China
CHEN Lanqing
LÜ Jun
WANG Xiaoqian
ZHENG Hongying
SHAO Ping
WANG Anni
SUN Mei
CHEN Gang
Abstract：Objective To investigate the current situation of competency and professional activities of pediatric rehabilitation thera-pists in Jiangsu,Shanghai and Zhejiang.
Methods A questionnaire survey was conducted on 168 pediatric rehabilitation therapists in Jiangsu,Shanghai and Zheji-ang,from December,2022 to February,2023,and the general information and the competency were obtained.A total of 35 pediatric rehabilitation therapists were interviewed one-on-one,from October,2022 to January,2023,using thematic framework.
Results A total of 162 effective questionnaires were collected.The level of competency of pediatric rehabilitation thera-pists was(3.44±0.87);and it was higher in professional literacy(3.90±0.77)and practice(3.83±0.77),and lower in management and leadership(2.92±1.44),and research(2.14±1.64).Latent class analysis showed that the thera-pists could be divided into four categories,of which the"medium competency"accounted for the most proportion(34.57%),and"low learning and research"was the least(8.64%).The interviews identified problems of compe-tency such as maintaining communication with children's families and managing self-professional development.
Conclusion Self-reported rehabilitation competency levels of pediatric rehabilitation therapists in three provinces and cit-ies are above three points in all four dimensions,except for the management and leadership dimension,where the score is below three points.
Keywords：pediatric rehabilitation therapistrehabilitation competency frameworklatent class analysiscompetencyprofessional activities
Publication Date：2024-07-25
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 760-767 )