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Personality oriented job analysis to identify non-cognitive factors for a doctor of physical therapy program in the United States.

ABSTRACT: It aimed to conduct a personality oriented job analysis to identify non-cognitive factors that may predict successful performance or performance difficulties in doctorate in physical therapy (DPT) students. The study employed focus groups and a survey with 9 DPT subject matter experts. Focus group participants including 3 DPT faculty members and 4 recent graduates of the DPT program identified 22 non-cognitive factors. Out of them, 15 factors were possibly associated with successful performance and 7 factors were possibly associated with performance difficulties. The questionnaire employing the Combination Job Analysis Method resulted in 12 factors which could be used in selection, and 10 which could be incorporated into training. The present study employed an established job analysis method using subject matter experts to identify a broad array of factors that go beyond what previous studies have examined, and which may predict success or difficulties in a DPT program.

SUBMITTER: Conard M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6380910 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Personality oriented job analysis to identify non-cognitive factors for a doctor of physical therapy program in the United States.

Conard Maureen M Schweizer Kristin K

Journal of educational evaluation for health professions 20181228

It aimed to conduct a personality oriented job analysis to identify non-cognitive factors that may predict successful performance or performance difficulties in doctorate in physical therapy (DPT) students. The study employed focus groups and a survey with 9 DPT subject matter experts. Focus group participants including 3 DPT faculty members and 4 recent graduates of the DPT program identified 22 non-cognitive factors. Out of them, 15 factors were possibly associated with successful performance ...[more]

PMID: 30590911

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Project description:BackgroundU.S. nursing homes provide long-term care to over 1.2 million older adults, 60% of whom were physically frail and 68% had moderate or severe cognitive impairment. Limited research has examined the longitudinal experience of these two conditions in older nursing home residents.MethodsThis national longitudinal study included newly-admitted non-skilled nursing care older residents who had Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 (2014-16) assessments at admission, 3 months, and 6 months (n = 266,001). Physical frailty was measured by FRAIL-NH and cognitive impairment by the Brief Interview for Mental Status. Separate sets of group-based trajectory models were fitted to identify the trajectories of physical frailty and trajectories of cognitive impairment, and to estimate the association between older residents' characteristics at admission with each set of trajectories. A dual trajectory model was used to quantify the association between the physical frailty trajectories and cognitive impairment trajectories.ResultsOver the course of the first six months post-admission, five physical frailty trajectories ["Consistently Frail" (prevalence: 53.0%), "Consistently Pre-frail" (29.0%), "Worsening Frailty" (7.6%), "Improving Frailty" (5.5%), and "Consistently Robust" (4.8%)] and three cognitive impairment trajectories ["Consistently Severe Cognitive Impairment" (35.5%), "Consistently Moderate Cognitive Impairment" (31.8%), "Consistently Intact/Mild Cognitive Impairment" (32.7%)] were identified. One in five older residents simultaneously followed the trajectories of "Consistently Frail" and "Consistently Severe Cognitive Impairment". Characteristics associated with higher odds of the "Improving Frailty", "Worsening Frailty", "Consistently Pre-frail" and "Consistently Frail" trajectories included greater at-admission cognitive impairment, age ≥ 85 years, admitted from acute hospitals, cardiovascular/metabolic diagnoses, neurological diagnoses, hip or other fractures, and presence of pain. Characteristics associated with higher odds of the "Consistently Moderate Cognitive Impairment" and "Consistently Severe Cognitive Impairment" included worse at-admission physical frailty, neurological diagnoses, hip fracture, and receipt of antipsychotics.ConclusionsFindings provided information regarding the trajectories of physical frailty, the trajectories of cognitive impairment, the association between the two sets of trajectories, and their association with residents' characteristics in older adults' first six months post-admission to U.S. nursing homes. Understanding the trajectory that the residents would most likely follow may provide information to develop a comprehensive care approach tailored to their specific healthcare goals.

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Personality oriented job analysis to identify non-cognitive factors for a doctor of physical therapy program in the United States.

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Personality oriented job analysis to identify non-cognitive factors for a doctor of physical therapy program in the United States.

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