Test 2 Flashcards
What do you need to accomplish during the interview?
- Build Therapeutic Alliance
- Learn patient’s story
- Learn about patient’s chief complaint, prior treatment, pain
- Gain some information about living environment, support network
- Learn Patient’s learning styles
- For diagnosis
- Build rapport with patient
- Learn patient goals
What are barriers to a good interview?
- Time
- Language
- Patient attitudes, beliefs, emotionally laded
- Patient’s fear or distrust of healthcare
- Insurance, 3rd party payment
- The physical environment- is there a quiet space available
- Therapists ability to listen attentively, respond helpfully
- Therapists lack of knowledge about signs/symptoms
How do we use the interview as a diagnostic tool?
- Objectivity
- Precision
- Sensitivity and Specificity
- Reliability
- Skill
What things will impact a patient’s utilization and outcomes of PT?
- Access to healthcare
- Language
- Socioeconomic status
- Insurance
- Distance to travel to receive care
What are the three core qualities in clinical interviewing when building the therapeutic relationship?
- Respect: the ability to accept the patient as he or she is
- Empathy: the ability to understand the patient’s experiences and feelings accurately; it also includes demonstrating that understanding to the patient
- Genuineness: the ability to be congruent in your professional role
Define congruency?
when the words you say and your emotions add up
Define microaggresion?
responses that may be interpreted as put-downs
Why do we document at PTs?
- To provide a basis for clinical reasoning
- Communication tool for providers
- Meet legal requirements
- Payment for service
- Data collection for outcome assessment/EBP
What does SOAP stand for?
• Subjective (what the patient said)
• Objective (what the practitioner observed)
• Assessment of what this meant
• Plan for future care
(The progress notes, narrative note flow sheets documenting changes in data over time, and a discharge note)
What are characteristics of qualitative research?
- Involves unstructured interviews, observation, and content analysis
- Subjective
- Inductive
- Little structure
- Little manipulation of subjects
- Takes a great deal of time to conduct
- Little social distance between researcher and subject
- Different people can perceive the truth differently
- Qualitative research attempts to find out how people perceive their lives
- Different people will have different perspectives
- The researcher’s experiences, beliefs, and values are incorporated into the research design and analysis of the data
What are the methods?
- Observation
- Interviews
- Data analysis and interpretation
- Trustworthiness and generalizability (Credibility, Transferability, Triangulation)
- Sampling
What are the characteristics of Quantitative Research?
- Involves experiments, surveys, testing and structured content analysis, interviews and observation
- Objective
- Deductive
- High degree of structure
- Some manipulation of subjects
- May not require a lot of researcher time
- Much social distance between researcher and subject
What is a paradigm?
• A “worldview” or a set of assumptions about how things work; “shared understandings of reality”
• Primary Paradigms:
o Positivism: Associated with quantitative research. Involves hypothesis testing to obtain “objective” truth.
o Interpretivism: Associated with qualitative research. Used to obtain an understanding of the world from an individual perspective.
What are the 3 components of the Biopsychosocial model, adopted by the WHO?
• The WHO defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
• The three components are:
——-Biology, Psychology, and Social Environment
• The model assumes that the person’s response to any state of health or illness is a result of the interaction of the person’s psychology and social environment with the biological determinants of disease and trauma
describe the NAGI?
o Active pathology: interruption or interference with normal processes and effort of the organism to regain normal state
o Impairment: anatomical, physiological, mental or emotional abnormalities
o Functional Limitations: limitation in performance at the level of the whole organism or person
o Disability: limitation in performance of socially defined roles and tasks within a sociocultural and physical environment