Seminar Presentation
Seminar Presentation
Seminar Presentation
IS IT ANYWAY??
Cultural issues in
the delivery of
physical therapy
care.
Emily Held, Nicole Liu,
Madison Mertz, &
Lara Nasser
Diversity within the Realm of Physical Therapy
➔ 80% of Physical
Therapists are
White, making
that the most
common race or
ethnicity in the
occupation.
➔ 70.4% of physical
therapists are
Female.
Rural v. Urban
Mount Pleasant Detroit
Question: How would you handle the first treatment session with this patient?
Would you try to address the issue head on or wait things out and see how things
go?
Research Keys: Give patients a sense of respect and autonomy and this can lead
to improved health outcomes.
Nicole - PT Inpatient Rehab
Scenario 2: Interacting with a patient who is of a different racial/cultural
background than your own. Mike was a pt I had been seeing in inpatient rehab
who had undergone a right BKA. As a physical therapist, not only do we have to
be sensitive to and aware of our patient’s cultural backgrounds that are different
from ours, but we also need to be able to professionally and effectively address
situations where our patients are not appropriate to the PT’s cultural
background.
In this scenario, there was a cultural barrier between Mike and I and what was
affected was practitioner-patient communication. In contrast, promoting
cultural awareness improves patient-practitioner communication, facilitates the
establishment of rapport, increases attendance and compliance, creates a
comfortable atmosphere, and increases benefits of treatment and compliance
(Grandpierre et al., 2018).
Question: How can you gain a patient’s trust if you are never given the option?
“Achieving cultural
Diversity is not
competence is a
simply one’s culture
process, not an end
or race.
point” - APTA
APTA - Developing Diversity in PT
http://www.apta.org/CulturalCompetence/
References
U.S Census Bureau (2017) https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/mountpleasantcitymichigan/PST045217
Blueprint For Teaching Cultural Competence in Physical Therapy Education. American Physical Therapy Association.August
2014. https://www.apta.org/Educators/Curriculum/APTA/CulturalCompetence/.
Grandpierre V, Milloy V, Sikora L, Fitzpatrick E, Thomas R, Potter B. Barrier and facilitator to cultural competence in
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