Chetty Laran
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Pond Street, London, UK.
Hong Kong Physiother J. 2020 Jun;40(1):1-9. doi: 10.1142/S1013702520500018. Epub 2019 Sep 13.
Occupational health physiotherapy has been practiced in the UK over several decades. In the past decade, the role of occupational health physiotherapy has gained recognition as a profession that can be embedded within occupational health departments; however, limited information is known about the role of physiotherapists from professional groups outside the allied health domain in this context.
The aim of this study is to explore the experiences of occupational health doctors and nurses about the role of physiotherapy in occupational health rehabilitation.
This study is a qualitative investigation underpinned by an interpretative construct. Thirteen semi-structured interviews were conducted. Two occupational health doctors and 12 nurses were purposively recruited from two National Health Service (NHS) hospitals. Data were analyzed using thematic content analysis, coded manually and verified by member checking.
The benefits of occupational health physiotherapists were rapid access intervention, advanced knowledge and clinical reasoning, evidence-based practice, and providing an additional perspective. The emerging themes of the challenges that occupational health physiotherapists may face include dealing with occupational health challenges, managing role conflicts, personal qualities and attributes, and role substitution.
Participants described numerous roles of occupational health physiotherapists ranging from clinical to organizational components. On-going research is needed to support the role development of physiotherapists providing occupational health rehabilitation and to further advocate for its relevance in this setting.
职业健康物理治疗在英国已开展了数十年。在过去十年中，职业健康物理治疗作为一个可融入职业健康部门的专业领域，其作用已得到认可；然而，在这种背景下，对于联合健康领域之外的专业群体中物理治疗师的作用，人们了解的信息有限。
本研究旨在探索职业健康医生和护士对物理治疗在职业健康康复中作用的看法。
本研究是一项基于解释性构建的定性调查。进行了13次半结构化访谈。从两家国民保健服务（NHS）医院中特意招募了两名职业健康医生和12名护士。采用主题内容分析法对数据进行分析，手动编码并通过成员核对进行验证。
职业健康物理治疗师的益处包括快速获得干预、专业知识和临床推理能力、循证实践以及提供额外视角。职业健康物理治疗师可能面临的挑战这一新兴主题包括应对职业健康挑战、管理角色冲突、个人品质和特质以及角色替代。
参与者描述了职业健康物理治疗师从临床到组织层面的众多作用。需要持续的研究来支持提供职业健康康复服务的物理治疗师的角色发展，并进一步倡导其在该环境中的相关性。
