Physiotherapy Student Disaster Response Readiness Survey from Six Portuguese Institutions

A 12-item questionnaire assesses physiotherapy students' predisposition, perceived competence, and readiness for emergency, disaster, and humanitarian action (EDHA). The instrument was content-validated by a panel of 12 experts and administered to 126 undergraduate students from six Portuguese higher education institutions. Results show a majority of students reported interest in EDHA contexts, but only 35.7% felt adequately prepared.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking student preparedness for disaster response based on self-reported competence scores.
• Identifying gaps in technical skills like specialized rehabilitation training based on student ratings.
• Evaluating the impact of curriculum reforms on functional role readiness in disaster contexts.
• Analyzing the relationship between academic year and predisposition to work in disaster settings.

Strengths

• The assessment tool demonstrated excellent content validity with a Scale-Content Validity Index/Average of 0.98.
• Data collection involved 126 undergraduate physiotherapy students from six institutions.
• The questionnaire is organized into three conceptual domains: predisposition, perceived competence, and readiness.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data is limited to a specific sample of 126 students from Portuguese institutions.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

A cross-sectional survey administered to undergraduate physiotherapy students.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 05:23:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Data was collected from six Portuguese higher education institutions.