Oscar Rodriguez

• PhD
• Professor at University of Leon

Background: It appears that the therapeutic relationship in physiotherapy practice facilitates the success of patient health outcomes, although the process by which it is carried out has been poorly studied. Objective: To explore the influence of the therapeutic relationship on any patient health outcomes in physical therapy settings. Methods:...

La motivación para el aprendizaje puede estar influida por la capacidad de autorregulación del aprendizaje del individuo. Por ello, este estudio tuvo como objetivo analizar las motivaciones y la autorregulación del aprendizaje entre los estudiantes de Fisioterapia, Enfermería y Podología de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud de la Universidad de L...

Background The correct selection of treatment techniques and methods in physiotherapy depends directly on a well-structured anamnesis, examination and assessment. Within urogynecological and obstetric physiotherapy there is no standardized and protocolized assessment that allows to follow established steps. For all this, the main objective of this...

Background: The nurse-patient therapeutic relationship is considered a pillar of mental health nursing, contributing to improved person-centered care and shared decision making with the patient. Given the importance of the nurse-patient therapeutic relationship, appropriate evaluation instruments are required to assess its quality. The aim of this...

Background Currently, in the scientific literature there is a great interest on the study of strategies to implement patient-centered care. One of the main tools for this is the therapeutic relationship. Some studies suggest that the perception of the environment in which the treatment takes place can influence the perception of its quality, but th...

Background and Purpose: The therapeutic relationship is a central component for developing person‐centered care within physiotherapy services. However, it is necessary to understand how this relationship is perceived by both parties involved. The Person Centered Therapeutic Relationship‐Patient scale (PCTR‐PT) was con- structed to identify patients...

Objetivo La relación terapéutica (RT) es determinante para el desarrollo y los resultados terapéuticos en fisioterapia. Se precisa formación del personal sanitario en métodos para llevarla a cabo. No se han encontrado publicaciones sobre la repercusión de este tipo de formación en la RT entre fisioterapeutas y pacientes. El objetivo fue evaluar la...

University students have changed their behaviour due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of PCR+ and PCR- nodes, analyse the structure, and relate the structure of student leaders to pandemic contagion as determined by PCR+ in 93 residential university students. Leadership comes from the male students of social...

Aims and objectives: The aim of this study is to explore the perceptions of parents of children with physical disabilities concerning the quality of their interaction with health professionals in early intervention programs. Background: Despite the consensus on the need for Patient and Family-Centered Care, there are still difficulties when exec...

Background Evidence-based practice (EBP) interventions and effective therapeutic alliance (TA) are associated with greater treatment success. Furthermore, burnout syndrome could be detrimental to the development of such TA. Objective To examine the association between EBP competencies and burnout level with the quality of TA among Spanish physioth...

The biopsychosocial paradigm contemplates the patient’s personality traits in physiotherapy treatments for chronic pain. Among these traits, the locus of control has a direct relationship with the person’s coping strategies in the face of their health problems. The objective of this systematic review was to assess the influence of locus of control...

BACKGROUND The practice environment influences the quality of care and the nursing outcomes achieved in their workplaces. AIMS To examine the perception of the clinical practice environment among nurses working in mental health units in the context of their participation in an action research study aimed at improving the nurse–patient relationship...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused the start of the academic year 2020/2021 to be conditioned by health and safety regulations. The present research was defined with the aim of analyzing the degree of satisfaction and perceptions on the establishment of bubble groups and pairs and on the use of audiovisual platforms for the development of theoretical and...

The aim of this study was to quantify the level of burnout and competence for evidence-based practice among Spanish physical therapists and to determine if there is a relationship between these and other socio-professional factors. A cross-sectional study with 472 Spanish Physiotherapists. An electronic survey was conducted that included the Maslac...

Aims To evaluate the effects of an intervention aimed at improving the therapeutic relationship, using the participatory‐action research method, in terms of improving the quality of the nurse–patient therapeutic relationship. Design A single‐group pre‐post research design. Methods Quantitative data were collected between January 2018 and June 201...

This study aimed to explore the perspective of people who had experienced treatment as patients at acute mental health units, regarding an intervention model to improve therapeutic relationships in the units, which had been previously designed by the nurses. The study participants were people linked to collectives for social activism in mental heal...

Resumen Antecedentes El dolor crónico afecta a alrededor de un 20% de la población en países desarrollados. Uno de cada cinco europeos lo sufre, alterando la vida del individuo, deteriorando su salud y siendo fuente de discapacidad. Existe una mayor incidencia del dolor crónico sobre el sexo femenino y la zona lumbar. Actualmente, la fisioterapia...

The special situation brought about by the coronavirus pandemic and the confinement imposed by the Government, has given rise to numerous changes in working habits. The workers at the universities have had to start a period of teleworking that could give rise to consequences for the musculoskeletal system. The objective of this article is to analyz...

Aims To examine the relationship between the dimensions of evidence‐based practice and the therapeutic relationship and to predict the quality of the therapeutic relationship from these dimensions among nurses working in mental health units. Design A cross‐sectional design. Methods Data were collected between February–April 2018 via an online for...

The lockdown, due to the coronavirus, has led to a change in lifestyle and physical activity in Spanish university students. The objective of this study was to analyze the prevalence of musculoskeletal pain and changes in physical activity and self-perceived stress in the student bodies of two Spanish Universities during the lockdown. A cross-secti...

Currently, in the scientific literature there is a great interest on the study of strategies to implement patient-centered care. One of the main tools for this is the therapeutic relationship. Some studies suggest that the perception of the environment in which the physical therapy treatment takes place can influence the perception of its quality....

Objective To determine the psychometric properties of the Person-Centered Therapeutic Relationship in Physiotherapy Scale (PCTR-PT) in order to find the most appropriate fit for the tool. Methods Patients who had received treatment at the physiotherapy service of nine hospitals in Spain were invited to complete the 31 items of the PCTR-PT scale. T...

Introduction Empathy and its dimensions (perspective taking, empathic concern, personal distress and fantasy) are essential for establishing the nurse‐patient therapeutic relationship. It is important to know how this influences the construction and development of the therapeutic alliance during the different phases of the therapeutic relationship....

Background Research into service learning (SL) in education has increased since the 1990s. In higher education physiotherapy programmes, this technique is used to achieve real practical learning and to grasp how to recognize and manage emotions, to be concerned for others and to take decisions in clinical contexts. Objectives To create a community...

Objectives This study sought to develop a tool for evaluating person-centered therapeutic relationships within physiotherapy services, and to examine the content validity of the same. Methods A mixed qualitative and quantitative study was performed in three distinct phases: 1) the items were generated based on a literature review and a content ana...

The therapeutic relationship constitutes the central axis of mental health nursing. The clinical practice environment has been empirically related to the quality of care. However, the relationship between the two constructs is unknown in the setting of mental health units. We aimed to examine whether the practice environment and nurses’ characteris...

Introduction: Person-centered care has emerged as a key principle in the provision of health and rehabilitation services. To implement this approach, health professionals must strive to develop a person-centered therapeutic relationship. The aim of this study was to explore the barriers and facilitators for the establishment of a person-centered re...

Resumen: Introducción: La fisioterapia ha comenzado a adoptar rápidamente un modelo biopsicosocial donde se reconoce al paciente y su contexto general. Bajo este nuevo paradigma, la comunicación centrada en la persona entre los profesionales de la salud y los beneficiarios de sus cuidados es una de las claves del éxito terapéutico. Objetivo: descri...

Background: Over recent years there has been a paradigm shift towards a patient-centred biopsychosocial care model in physical therapy. This new paradigm features a growing interest in understanding the contextual factors that influence the patient's experience of disease, pain and recovery. This includes generalized consensus regarding the import...