Previously submitted to: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (no longer under consideration since Jun 04, 2021)
Date Submitted: Mar 23, 2021
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Mobile-learning experience to improve skills in the design of therapeutic exercise programmes in physiotherapy students: perception, satisfaction and students demand.
ABSTRACT
Background:
The use of mobile apps in health care is growing. Current and future practitioners must be equipped with the skills to utilize apps in patient care. The use of training tools in physiotherapy students presents low levels of barriers to its use and a high number of benefits for the student and the educator. One of the most widely used physiotherapy clinical skills, regardless of the clinical situation, is the design of therapeutic exercise programmes. No evidence is available using m-learning tools to design therapeutic exercise programme skills. This study evaluate the potential for m-learning in clinical skills acquisition using an exercise prescription app.
Objective:
To evaluate the students' perception as an innovative learning experience identifying aspects to be improved and their perception respect to traditional teaching.
Methods:
A descriptive study in five health sciences faculties in Spain during the 2018-2021 academic years. The use of the tool is carried out under the supervision of physiotherapy teachers in diverse disciplines. During this m-learning experience, students are engaged with didactic, workshop, and project-based experiences focused on finding, evaluating, and using the exercise prescription app in patient care. This app educational experience was integrated into different subjects.
Results:
m-learning tool to design therapeutic exercise programme is considered and innovative instrument (score 3.68 likert scale) that brings improvements in the learning of physiotherapy students with a high degree of satisfaction (average score 3.41 likert scale). Students demand more support from teachers and better mobile applications that allow them to self-learning and retrain their skills. It is considered a useful and necessary tool, compatible with traditional education.
Conclusions:
Our research provides new knowledge using mobile innovative technologies enhancing learning skills. Students strongly recommend the use of the m-learning tool along the physiotherapy academic period.
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