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Liu J, Zeng Y. A Study of Factors Influencing the Volume of Responses to Posts in Physician Online Community. Healthcare (Basel) 2023; 11:healthcare11091275. [PMID: 37174819 PMCID: PMC10178131 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11091275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2023] [Revised: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023] Open
Abstract
Today's diverse health needs place greater demands on physicians. However, individual doctors have limited capabilities and may encounter many unsolvable medical problems. The physician online community provides a platform for physicians to communicate with each other and help each other. Physicians can post for help about problems they encounter at work. The number of responses to physicians' posts is critical to whether or not the problem is resolved. This study collected information on 13,226 posts from a well-known physician online community in China to analyze the factors that influence the number of post replies. In the analysis of the post content of the physician online community, this study innovatively introduces word usage features in the medical field. TextMind was used to extract the rate of several types of words in posts that frequently appear when describing medical information. Ultimately, we found that the rate of time words, visual words, auditory words, and physiological process words used in posts had a positive and significant effect on the number of post responses. A series of new post features has been found to have an impact on the number of post replies in physician online communities. This finding is beneficial for physicians to quickly obtain peer assistance through online platforms, increasing the likelihood of solving workplace challenges and improving physician care, as well as the success of physician online communities.
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- Jingfang Liu
- School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 201800, China
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- School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai 201800, China
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von Hoyer J, Bientzle M, Cress U, Grosser J, Kimmerle J. False certainty in the acquisition of anatomical and physiotherapeutic knowledge. BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION 2022; 22:765. [PMID: 36348330 PMCID: PMC9641864 DOI: 10.1186/s12909-022-03820-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Efficient metacognitive monitoring, that is the monitoring of one's own thought processes and specifically one's state of knowledge, is essential for effective clinical reasoning. Knowing what one does and does not know is a competency that students of health professions need to develop. Students often tend to develop false certainty in their own knowledge in the longer course of their education, but the time frame that is required for this effect to occur has remained unclear. We investigated whether students developed false certainty already after one course unit. METHODS This study analysed data from one sample of medical students and four samples of physiotherapy students in two formal educational settings (total N = 255) who took knowledge tests before and after a course unit. We examined changes in students' confidence separately for correctly and incorrectly answered questions and analysed their ability to assign higher levels of confidence to correct answers than to incorrect answers (discrimination ability). RESULTS Students' knowledge as well as confidence in their correct answers in knowledge tests increased after learning. However, consistently for all samples, confidence in incorrect answers increased as well. Students' discrimination ability improved only in two out of the five samples. CONCLUSIONS Our results are in line with recent research on confidence increase of health professions students during education. Extending those findings, our study demonstrated that learning in two different formal educational settings increased confidence not only in correct but also in incorrect answers to knowledge questions already after just one learning session. Our findings highlight the importance of improving metacognition in the education of health professionals-especially their ability to know what they do not know.
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Affiliation(s)
- Johannes von Hoyer
- Knowledge Construction Lab. Leibniz-Institut Für Wissensmedien, Schleichstr. 6, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany.
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- Knowledge Construction Lab. Leibniz-Institut Für Wissensmedien, Schleichstr. 6, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Knowledge Construction Lab. Leibniz-Institut Für Wissensmedien, Schleichstr. 6, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
- Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Schleichstr.4, D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Knowledge Construction Lab. Leibniz-Institut Für Wissensmedien, Schleichstr. 6, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Knowledge Construction Lab. Leibniz-Institut Für Wissensmedien, Schleichstr. 6, 72076, Tuebingen, Germany
- Department of Applied Cognitive Psychology and Media Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Schleichstr.4, D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany, Tuebingen, Germany
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Rossettini G, Turolla A, Gudjonsdottir B, Kapreli E, Salchinger B, Verheyden G, Palese A, Dell’Isola A, de Caro JX. Digital Entry-Level Education in Physiotherapy: a Commentary to Inform Post-COVID-19 Future Directions. MEDICAL SCIENCE EDUCATOR 2021; 31:2071-2083. [PMID: 34754600 PMCID: PMC8567978 DOI: 10.1007/s40670-021-01439-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Currently, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) severely influences physiotherapy education which is based mostly on face-to-face teaching. Thus, educators have been compelled to adapt their pedagogical approaches moving to digital education. In this commentary, we debate on digital education highlighting its effectiveness, the users' perspectives, and its weakness in the context of physiotherapy teaching aimed at informing post-COVID-19 future directions in this educational field. Existing evidence on digital education produced before COVID-19 supports its implementation into entry-level physiotherapy education. However, some challenges (e.g. social inequality and evaluation of students) threaten its applicability in post-COVID-19 era, calling educators to take appropriate actions.
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- Giacomo Rossettini
- School of Physiotherapy, University of Verona, Via Bengasi 4, 37134 Verona, Italy
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- Laboratory of Rehabilitation Technologies, San Camillo IRCCS Srl, Via Alberoni 70, 30126 Venice, Italy
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- Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Stapi At Hringbraut, 101 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Department of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, 3rd km Old National Road Lamia-Athen, 35100 Lamia, Greece
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- Institute of Physiotherapy, FH JOANNEUM, Eggenberger Allee 13, 8020 Graz, Austria
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Tervuursevest 101, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Medical Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Udine, Viale Ungheria 20, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Department of Clinical Sciences Orthopaedic, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Entrégatan 8, 22100 Lund, Sweden
- Department of Clinical Sciences Orthopaedics, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Triq Dun Karm, L-Imsida, Msida, 2090 MSD Malta
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Bientzle M, Kölle A, Lechner C, Kimmerle J. Challenges and opportunities of cooperation across medical schools. MEDICAL TEACHER 2021; 43:1341. [PMID: 33826876 DOI: 10.1080/0142159x.2021.1908527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Martina Bientzle
- Knowledge Construction Lab, Leibniz-Institut fuer Wissensmedien, Tuebingen, Germany
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- School for Vocational Education and Training of Physiotherapy, PT Akademie Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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- Institute for Vocational Education and Training of Physiotherapy, Massage and Podiatry, Ulm, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
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Bientzle M, Minje J, Cress U, Kimmerle J. Therapeutic Touch in Exercise Videos: A Randomized Experiment of the Impact on the Evaluation of Therapists' Competence and Viewers' Self-Reliance. Front Sports Act Living 2019; 1:35. [PMID: 33344958 PMCID: PMC7739565 DOI: 10.3389/fspor.2019.00035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2019] [Accepted: 09/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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From a psychological health perspective, being physically touched is highly relevant throughout people's lives. Touch plays an important role in many contexts, such as in instructing movement exercises. Exercise videos have become a well-accepted format to support therapists in instructing movement exercises. In the study presented here we examined the impact of the use of therapeutic touch in exercise videos on people's evaluation of physiotherapists' competence and on their own self-reliance. In a between-group randomized experiment, 125 participants watched one of three videos that showed a physiotherapist who instructed a movement exercise to a patient. The physiotherapist touched the patient during the treatment (therapist-touch, TT), instructed the patient to use self-touch (ST), or provided only exercise instruction without physical touch (no-touch, NT). In the TT condition, the participants' perception was that the physiotherapist exhibited more professional competence. However, participants considered the movement exercise in this TT condition to have less potential for fostering their autonomy. Finally, participants in the ST condition had the biggest increase in perceived self-efficacy. The way of touching a patient in an exercise video influences the perception of the treatment. We conclude that therapeutic touch should be applied in exercise videos in a goal-oriented way: It seems appropriate to use ST if the aim is to strengthen viewers' self-reliance and to use TT to arouse trust in the competence of the therapist.
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- Martina Bientzle
- Leibniz-Institut fuer Wissensmedien, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany.,PT Academy Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut fuer Wissensmedien, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany.,Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Leibniz-Institut fuer Wissensmedien, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen, Germany.,Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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