Alanazi Fahad Salam, Mysore Sunitha Bhagavathi, Farghaly Abeer Ahmed
Department of Physical Therapy and Health Rehabilitation, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University, Qurayat, Al-Jouf Region, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Physiotherapy, Fatima College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
Int J Gen Med. 2022 Aug 1;15:6373-6380. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S371717. eCollection 2022.
The COVID-19 pandemic closed most establishments in the United Arab Emirates except health care and other essential services from 8 March 2020 until 24 June. By 22 March, most citizens were working online, including physical therapy students, and a no-movement policy restricted exercise to homes. The lockdown ended partially in August 2021 and almost complete by January 2022.
We aimed (1) to explore the physical activities of advanced undergraduate physical therapy students and their families during the lockdown, (2) to discuss how participants helped promote and maintain their own and their family's physical health, and (3) to identify what knowledge and skills gained in their physical therapy study students utilized during the lockdown.
We took a qualitative approach; a one-to-one semi-structured interviews were conducted by Year 4 physical students who at the time were registered for a module covering qualitative research methods. The students interviewed other physical therapy students from year 4 and 5 who were recruited using convenience sampling from a health sciences educational institution. Interviews were conducted and recorded on the Zoom platform and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was utilised to analyse the data.
Forty-six students agreed to participate, and data saturation was achieved with interviews of 24 students. During the COVID-19 Stay Home-Stay Safe initiative, students of physical therapy were found to be physically active and to have designed home exercise programs for themselves and their families. Adherence to regular exercise was high among the students but low among family members. Three overarching themes, each with three subthemes, emerged through synthesis, coding, and categorizing.
Undergraduate students can effectively promote their own and their family's health. Energy imbalance and increasing neck, shoulder, and back pain among youth and lack of exercise among adults, midlife, and older, raise health concerns.
2020年3月8日至6月24日，新冠疫情导致阿拉伯联合酋长国的大多数场所关闭，仅医疗保健和其他基本服务场所除外。到3月22日，包括物理治疗专业学生在内的大多数公民都在网上工作，一项禁止外出的政策将锻炼限制在家中。封锁在2021年8月部分结束，到2022年1月几乎完全结束。
我们旨在（1）探究本科高年级物理治疗专业学生及其家人在封锁期间的身体活动情况，（2）讨论参与者如何帮助促进和维持自己及家人的身体健康，（3）确定学生在封锁期间运用了他们在物理治疗学习中获得的哪些知识和技能。
我们采用定性研究方法；由当时注册了一门涵盖定性研究方法课程模块的四年级物理治疗专业学生进行一对一的半结构化访谈。这些学生采访了来自四年级和五年级的其他物理治疗专业学生，这些学生是从一所健康科学教育机构通过便利抽样招募的。访谈在Zoom平台上进行并录音，然后逐字转录。采用主题分析法对数据进行分析。
46名学生同意参与，对24名学生的访谈实现了数据饱和。在新冠疫情“居家安全”倡议期间，发现物理治疗专业学生身体活动积极，并为自己和家人设计了家庭锻炼计划。学生中坚持定期锻炼的比例较高，但家庭成员中这一比例较低。通过综合、编码和分类，出现了三个总体主题，每个主题又包含三个子主题。
本科学生能够有效地促进自己和家人的健康。年轻人能量失衡以及颈部、肩部和背部疼痛加剧，成年人、中年人和老年人缺乏锻炼，这些都引发了健康问题。
