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Current Pediatric Research| Volume: 22
November 28-29, 2018 | Dubai, UAE
15
th
World Congress on
Pediatrics, Clinical Pediatrics and Nutrition
28
th
International Conference on
Nursing Practice
Joint Event
&
Impact of learning the International Classification Functioning Disability & Health (ICF) for children and
youth framework as clinical reasoning tool for Paediatric Physiotherapists working with children with
Cerebral Palsy
Hanan Demyati
1
, Diane Dixon
2
, Pauline Adair
3
and
Carin Schroder
4
1
Al-Hada Armed Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia
2
University of Strathclyde: Glasgow, United Kingdom
3
Queen’s University, United Kingdom
4
Centre of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine Utrecht, Netherlands
T
his study was evaluated the impact of a two-day ICF-for
Children and Youth (CY) in-service training on Pediatric
Physiotherapists (PPTs) clinical reasoning and parental
experience of the physiotherapy management of their child.
Methods: A logic model was created to clarify the processes
undertaken before, during and after delivery of ICF in-service
training. A longitudinal evaluation of ICF training delivered
to pediatric physiotherapists was undertaken in two phases:
Phase1: Physiotherapist Questionnaire to measure ICF
knowledge and its application was completed at the beginning
and again at the end of training workshop. Phase 2: fivemonths
following the workshop, the parents of children with CP who
were attending a physiotherapy department for treatment
were asked to complete Parent Questionnaire that measured
their experience of their child treatment. Four departments
the PPTs had attended the ICF training workshop while in
the other four; the PPTs had not attended the training. The
impact of training was significant on PPTs’ knowledge of the
ICF, performance and cognition including intention, attitude
toward application and perceived control of the application
of contextual factors. Parents were more satisfied with the
treatment provided by ICF-trained group. Satisfaction of
parents whose child was being managed by an ICF trained PPT
had significant relationships to the child’s objective and co-
operation with physiotherapy items. Findings from this study
inform the development of ICF training as clinical reasoning
tool for future studies to investigate ICF implementation. There
is ample opportunity for learning the ICF model as clinical
reasoning model, which will allow the cognitive processes
that underlie decision making to become habitual. Once the
decision-making behavior that is applied to environmental
and personal factors has become habit, it could lead to the
implementation of the ICF model in physiotherapy practice.
Speaker Biography
Hanan Demyati is a pediatric physiotherapist at Al-Hada Armed forces hospital since
2004. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Physiotherapy from King Saud University
in 1993 and graduated with MSc from Cardiff University in 2011. She completed Doctor of
Philosophy fromUniversity of Strathclyde in 2017. She have split her working time between
acquiring her skills and clinical education since qualifying. She is interested in development
and evaluation children qualities of life-to figure out how pediatric physiotherapists use
thinking strategy to develop proper individual treatment plan for each child. She is focusing
on importance of turning a treatment into a way of life, to influence child’s collaborating
with his/her parents and environment more effectively in activity of daily living. Her
research interests are in the area of application the International Classification Functioning
Disability & Health (ICF) framework as clinical reasoning tool in pediatric physiotherapy
clinical practice. Her research ambition is to introduce and adapt more the ICF model in
paediatric physiotherapy for children with cerebral palsy and other paediatric health
condition based on evidence base practice.
e:
hdemyati@gmail.comHanan Demyati et al., Pediatrics and Clinical Pediatrics 2018
& Nursing Practice 2018, Volume 22
DOI: 10.4066/0971-9032-C2-005