Shanghai Yangzhi Rehabilitation Hospital (Shanghai Sunshine Rehabilitation Center), Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
BMC Med Educ. 2020 Apr 9;20(1):108. doi: 10.1186/s12909-020-02026-3.
Development of an entry-level physiotherapy curriculum in China currently follows the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) guidelines, however there is no standard, validated, assessment tool for physiotherapy practice in use in China. This article reports the process of translation of the "Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice" (APP), a validated assessment instrument adopted by all universities in Australia and New Zealand, into Chinese (APP-Chinese) and its implementation by Chinese physiotherapy clinical educators (CEs) and students during clinical placements.
The process of forward and backward translation of the APP was undertaken by a team of academics from universities in Shanghai, Hong Kong, United States and Australia. An APP-Chinese version was produced and used for assessment of the clinical performance of 4th year students at a university in Shanghai. Feedback on the implementation of the APP-Chinese was solicited from students and CEs using the same two questionnaires employed to assess implementation of the original APP.
All CEs agreed that the rules used to score the APP-Chinese were helpful in assessing student performance. Over 90% of the CEs considered the APP-Chinese was pragmatic for use in the clinical environment in China. All students agreed with the rating of their performance on the APP-Chinese marked by their educators, and that the performance indicators were useful in guiding their expected performance behaviour.
The APP-Chinese is the first standardised assessment tool for evaluation of clinical performance of physiotherapy students in China and was shown to be well accepted by both students and CEs in the clinical education unit and university involved in this study.
中国入门级物理治疗课程的发展目前遵循世界物理治疗联盟（WCPT）的指南，但中国没有用于物理治疗实践的标准、经过验证的评估工具。本文报告了将“物理治疗实践评估”（APP）翻译成中文（APP-Chinese）的过程，该评估工具已被澳大利亚和新西兰的所有大学采用，并在中国的物理治疗临床教育者（CEs）和学生在临床实习期间实施。
APP 的正向和逆向翻译过程由来自上海、香港、美国和澳大利亚大学的一组学者进行。制作了一个 APP-Chinese 版本，并用于评估上海一所大学四年级学生的临床表现。使用评估原始 APP 实施情况的相同两份问卷，从学生和 CEs 那里征求对 APP-Chinese 实施情况的反馈。
所有 CEs 都认为用于评分 APP-Chinese 的规则有助于评估学生的表现。超过 90%的 CEs 认为 APP-Chinese 在中国的临床环境中使用非常实用。所有学生都同意他们的教育者对他们在 APP-Chinese 上的表现进行的评分，并且表现指标有助于指导他们预期的表现行为。
APP-Chinese 是中国评估物理治疗学生临床表现的第一个标准化评估工具，在参与本研究的临床教育单位和大学的学生和 CEs 中都得到了很好的接受。
