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Impact of Health Promotion Service-Learning for Older Adults in Physiotherapy Students

NCT07267832 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 83

Last updated 2025-12-15

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Summary

Currently, there is a lack of evidence regarding the impact of service-learning methodology (SL) on learning-related outcomes for physiotherapy students, specifically when designing and implementing health promotion programs for vulnerable older adults. The present study aims to compare the effects of an SL program versus a Traditional Learning (TL) approach on Basic Psychological Needs (BPN), motivation, academic engagement, and empathy in physiotherapy students.

This study is a randomized clinical trial. Eighty-three physiotherapy students are allocated to an SL group (SLG) or to a TL group (TLG). All students develop a health promotion and therapeutic exercise program for vulnerable older adults, in order to carry out prevention and health promotion activities. The SLG performs the program with real patients by visiting health centers, while the TLG does not meet real patients. BPN, motivation, academic engagement, and empathy, in their different dimensions, are evaluated pre- and post-intervention.

This study was registered retrospectively, as the recruitment and/or data collection had already started before registration.

Conditions

  • Healthy Students

Interventions

OTHER

health promotion through Service-Learning

Students of the Service-Learning Group (SLG) put their plans into practice by directly interacting with older adults in health centers, allowing them to observe needs firsthand and apply interventions in real-life contexts.

OTHER

Health Promotion through Traditional Learning

Students in the Traditional Learning Group (TLG) develop their programs based solely on literature and research, without direct contact with patients. They analyze the needs of older adults through bibliographic sources, discuss their findings with the instructor, and integrate both individual and group work into their process. The TLG finalizes their project by presenting the proposed program to classmates, using examples to illustrate its application.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospital General Valencia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hospital Universitario La Fe

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Valencia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mercè Balasch i Bernat · Department of Physiotherapy. Faculty of Physiotherapya. University of Valencia

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-03-03
Primary Completion
2022-04-17
Completion
2022-04-17

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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