THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL THERAPIST APPROACH IN THE PARENT’S COMPLIANCE OF INFANTILE CEREBRAL PALSY DIAGNOSED CHILDREN. A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Authors

  • Alexandru Mădălin DINA National University of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Physiotherapy, U.N.E.F.S., Bucharest, Romania. dina_alex76@yahoo.com
  • Victorița PAVEL Recumed Medical Center, Bucharest, Romania.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeag.68(2).11

Keywords:

active participation, parent or guardian compliance, cerebral palsy, rehabilitation, physical therapist approach.

Abstract

Many methods of approaching the parents or guardians of neuromuscular diagnosed 0-4 years old children have been investigated, and the most efficient on the long period of time, as the diagnose needs a long-term medical program, has been found to be the clearly, detailed and constructive information. The lack of discernment and reason of a 0-4 year old child make his family role essential after the medical diagnose, especially the parents or guardians (P/G). The study’s objective is to demonstrate that the physical therapist relationship with P/G determines his treatment compliance. The research is based on the data collected from 2 groups, representative sample and a control group. Both groups followed the instructions of the medical rehabilitation program DinaCord which had a 4 months duration, being designed the same but having other approach from the physical therapist side, depending on which group the subjects belonged. The specialist’s participation must be active in both ways of transmitter and receiver. Thereby, the transmitted information is received then processed by the parent or guardian depending on the reception and empathize of the physical therapist by the paraverbal, nonverbal and verbal parent or guardian feedback. As results, the rehabilitation program has better output when the physical therapist’s P/G approach is optimized, compared to a passive information transmitter physical therapist. The conclusions underline the parent or guardian (P/G) compliance potential in the physical therapy program as he is let know about all the information consisting of the diagnosis, the approach (the therapy, the consequences, the result projection in an estimated period of time) and the influence of an active participation from his part.

Rezumat. Influența abordării fizioterapeutului asupra complianței părintelui copilului diagnosticat cu paralizie cerebrală infantilă. Studiu clinic randomizat. Există numeroase studii care au investigat metodele de abordare a părinților sau tutorilor copiilor cu vârsta 0-4 ani diagnosticați cu sindrom neuromuscular de către fizioterapeuți. iar cele mai eficiente pe o perioadă lungă de timp, deoarece diagnosticul necesită un program medical de recuperare de lungă durată, s-au dovedit a fi cele în care sunt prezentate informații clare, detaliate și constructive. Lipsa de discernământ și rațiune a unui copil de 0-4 ani fac ca rolul familiei sale să fie esențial după diagnosticare, în special a părintelui sau tutorelui (P/T). Obiectivul acestui studiu este să demonstreze că relația fizioterapeutului cu P/T influențează complianța acestuia la tratament. Cercetarea se bazează pe colectarea datelor de la 2 grupe, un grup ce reprezintă un eșantion reprezentativ al populației și un grup de control. Ambele grupe au urmat instrucțiunile programului de reabilitare medical DinaCord, care a avut o durată de 4 luni, însă abordarea fizioterapeutului a fost diferită. Participarea specialistului trebuie să fie activă în ambele roluri, de emițător și receptor. Astfel, informațiile sunt transmise către P/T și apoi procesate de către acesta, în funcție de recepționarea lor și empatizarea de către fizioterapeut a răspunsului paraverbal, nonverbal și verbal al P/T. Ca rezultat, programul de recuperare medical are rezultate mai bune atunci când abordarea P/T de către fizioterapeut este optimizată, în comparație cu o abordare pasivă a transmiterii informațiilor de către fizioterapeut. Concluziile acestui studiu subliniază potențialul complianței la tratament a părintelui sau tutorelui în cadrul programului de recuperare medicală, prin transmiterea acestuia a datelor cu privire la diagnostic, abordare (terapia aplicată, consecințe, proiecția rezultatelor pe o perioadă estimată), cât și influența unei participări active din partea sa.

Cuvinte cheie: participare active, complianța părintelui sau tutorelui, paralizie cerebrală, recuperare medical, abordarea fizioterapeutului.

Received 2023 May 24; Revised 2023 June 19.; Accepted 2023 June 20;
Available online 2023 July 30; Available print 2023 August 30.

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2023-07-30

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DINA, A. M., & PAVEL, V. (2023). THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL THERAPIST APPROACH IN THE PARENT’S COMPLIANCE OF INFANTILE CEREBRAL PALSY DIAGNOSED CHILDREN. A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Educatio Artis Gymnasticae, 68(2), 5–18. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeag.68(2).11

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