Cobbing Saul, Maddocks Stacy, Govender Simoene, Khan Shuaib, Mbhele Mpilonhle, Naidoo Kareena, Tootla Summaya, Weston Claire
Department of Physiotherapy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
S Afr J Physiother. 2017 Feb 15;73(1):335. doi: 10.4102/sajp.v73i1.335. eCollection 2017.
To investigate the facilitators and barriers to attaining a postgraduate physiotherapy degree in South Africa.
A quantitative, cross-sectional design using an internet-based survey was employed. The population of the study included all qualified physiotherapists who had completed community service and who were on the South African Society of Physiotherapy e-mailing list at the time of the study.
In all, 425 valid responses were received. The study participants were predominantly white women with a mean age of 36.9 and the majority were working in private practice. A total of 20.5% of respondents had completed a master's or doctoral degree in physiotherapy, while a further 13% of respondents were registered for a postgraduate degree in physiotherapy at the time of the study. Study participants who had obtained a postgraduate degree identified the same main barriers (namely cost/lack of financial support, family commitments and lack of time) and the same main facilitators (namely gaining of expertise, fulfilment of a personal goal and improvement of patient care) as participants who had not obtained a postgraduate degree. Participants who had not obtained a postgraduate degree were significantly more likely ( < 0.05) to report concerns regarding their own ability and a lack of motivation as barriers to further study.
South African physiotherapists with and without a postgraduate degree reported common facilitators and barriers to pursuing postgraduate studies. In order to ensure that a greater number and diversity of physiotherapists see postgraduate studies as a worthwhile career option, stakeholders in health and education in both the South African public and private sectors need to be engaged to limit the barriers to postgraduate study and seek novel methods of making postgraduate study a more attractive option from a personal development and career perspective.
调查在南非获得物理治疗研究生学位的促进因素和障碍。
采用基于互联网调查的定量横断面设计。研究人群包括所有完成社区服务且在研究时在南非物理治疗协会邮件列表中的合格物理治疗师。
共收到425份有效回复。研究参与者主要是白人女性，平均年龄36.9岁，大多数在私人诊所工作。共有20.5%的受访者已完成物理治疗硕士或博士学位，另有13%的受访者在研究时已注册物理治疗研究生学位。获得研究生学位的研究参与者与未获得研究生学位的参与者确定了相同的主要障碍（即成本/缺乏财政支持、家庭责任和时间不足）和相同的主要促进因素（即获得专业知识、实现个人目标和改善患者护理）。未获得研究生学位的参与者更有可能（<0.05）报告对自身能力的担忧和缺乏动力是进一步学习的障碍。
有和没有研究生学位的南非物理治疗师报告了攻读研究生的共同促进因素和障碍。为了确保更多不同的物理治疗师将研究生学习视为有价值的职业选择，南非公共和私营部门的卫生与教育利益相关者需要参与进来，以限制研究生学习的障碍，并从个人发展和职业角度寻找使研究生学习更具吸引力的新方法。
