Coghlan Cara M, Mallinger Hilary, McFadden Alison, Richard Jocelynn, Stern Arlee, Norman Kathleen E
Physical Therapy Program, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.
Physiother Can. 2017;69(1):83-93. doi: 10.3138/ptc.2016-23E.
The authors analyzed the demographics of potential future physiotherapists to determine whether they were representative of the Canadian population. The specific objectives were to examine selected demographic variables from all applicants to and students in Ontario English-language Master of Physical Therapy programmes in admission cycles 2004-2014, inclusive, and to analyze the results as compared with Canadian population data. Anonymized applicant records (=14,135) were obtained for admission cycles 2004-2014, inclusive. Variables examined for applicants and students included their gender, geographical location from Canadian and international regions, Aboriginal identity, and immigrant status. A descriptive analysis of counts and proportions was conducted for all variables. The majority of applicants were women (70%), from southern Ontario (73%), and Canadian born (82%). Aboriginal and rural applicants made up small proportions of the applicant pool (1% and 12%, respectively). The number of applicants from British Columbia was proportionally high relative to those from other Canadian provinces. Although Ontario's physiotherapy education programmes remain female dominated, the demographics of applicants and students are otherwise mostly representative of the diverse Canadian population, although very low in the number of Aboriginal peoples. Further research is needed to understand the diversity and composition of the Canadian physiotherapy workforce.
作者分析了未来潜在物理治疗师的人口统计学特征，以确定他们是否能代表加拿大人口。具体目标是研究2004年至2014年（含）安大略省英语授课物理治疗硕士课程所有申请者及学生的选定人口统计学变量，并将结果与加拿大人口数据进行比较分析。获取了2004年至2014年（含）入学周期匿名申请者记录（=14135份）。对申请者和学生考察的变量包括其性别、来自加拿大和国际地区的地理位置、原住民身份及移民身份。对所有变量进行了计数和比例的描述性分析。大多数申请者为女性（70%），来自安大略省南部（73%），且在加拿大出生（82%）。原住民和农村申请者在申请者群体中占比很小（分别为1%和12%）。相对于加拿大其他省份，来自不列颠哥伦比亚省的申请者数量比例较高。尽管安大略省的物理治疗教育项目仍以女性为主，但申请者和学生的人口统计学特征在其他方面大多能代表多元化的加拿大人口，不过原住民人数极少。需要进一步开展研究以了解加拿大物理治疗劳动力的多样性和构成情况。
