Department of Physical Therapy, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 6011 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX, 75390-8876, USA.
Department of Counseling and Higher Education, The University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA.
Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2019 May;24(2):269-285. doi: 10.1007/s10459-018-9864-8. Epub 2018 Nov 13.
Financial support for institutional research is relatively stagnant, and thus institutions are likely to seek tuition revenue to offset the costs of research and teaching. It is likely that this has led to increases in tuition driven activities, and thus has limited research activities of academic physical therapy (PT) programs in particular. However, the relationships between sources of program revenue, the number of graduates from PT programs, and the scholarly production of PT faculty have not been studied. The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of types of funding-including research grants and tuition-on the number of physical therapy graduates from each program and the research productivity of physical therapy faculty. Data from 2008 to 2016 were utilized to perform a fixed-effects panel analysis. Panel models created predictions for the number of graduates and the number of peer-reviewed publications for programs from grant funding, annual tuition, and number of funded faculty members. In any given program, a 1% increase in annual tuition is associated with 24% more graduates per year, but a single percentage point increase in the mix of NIH grant funding over other funding types is associated with 8% fewer graduates, all else equal. For every 1% increase in annual tuition, a program can expect to have 41% fewer publications per year. Those institutions with higher numbers of graduates tended to have higher numbers of publications. Higher annual program tuition appears to be associated with both higher numbers of physical therapy graduates and lower levels of publications. Different funding sources have variable effects on degree production and scholarly productivity. Data are self-reported by programs on the Annual Accreditation Report, and cause and effect cannot be established through observational design.
机构研究的资金支持相对停滞不前，因此机构可能会寻求学费收入来抵消研究和教学成本。这可能导致学费驱动的活动增加，从而特别限制了学术物理治疗（PT）计划的研究活动。然而，计划收入来源、PT 计划的毕业生人数以及 PT 教师的学术成果之间的关系尚未得到研究。本文的目的是研究包括研究补助金和学费在内的各种资金来源对每个计划的物理治疗毕业生人数和物理治疗教师的研究生产力的影响。利用 2008 年至 2016 年的数据进行固定效应面板分析。面板模型根据补助金、年度学费和受资助教师人数对计划的毕业生人数和同行评审出版物数量进行了预测。在任何给定的计划中，年度学费增加 1%，每年的毕业生人数就会增加 24%，但 NIH 补助金与其他资金类型的比例增加一个百分点，毕业生人数就会减少 8%，其他条件不变。每年的学费增加 1%，预计每年的出版物数量就会减少 41%。毕业生人数较多的机构往往有更多的出版物。较高的年度项目学费似乎与更多的物理治疗毕业生数量和较低的出版物数量有关。不同的资金来源对学位生产和学术生产力有不同的影响。数据是各计划在年度认证报告中自行报告的，通过观察设计无法确定因果关系。
