Table 4 Sample of Questions, Themes, and Illustrative Quotes from Student Reactions Questionnaire with the Richest Free Text Responses
Q1: Benefits of Intervention | Q2: Perceived Implementation Challenges | Q3: Areas for Improvement of Intervention | |
|---|---|---|---|
Themes | Improved confidence and communication | Comfort level and time | More practice and more feedback |
Student Quotation Supporting Theme | “I feel more equipped to help patients feel empowered with their treatment and want to view it as a PT-patient partnership rather than expert-patient relationship.” “I feel that I will now have a greater ability to communicate with all different types of patients and their emotions/coping with their injuries and pain.” | “I don’t want to force the patient to talk about something if they don’t want to, so I struggle with wanting to dig deeper but only on the patient’s terms.” “The amount of time we normally spend with patients could limit therapists’ ability to use this type of interviewing/communication strategy with patients.” | “I wish we had more sessions!...I normally dread role playing exercises, but was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed them and engaged in them. I wish we had more sessions to practice.” “Possibly providing us with more structured feedback about our mock patient interview and what, if anything, we improved upon after PIPT.” |
Number of responses/word count | 18/676 words | 18/524 words | 16/473 words |