TY - JOUR JF - Edu-Str-Med-Sci JO - Educ Strategy Med Sci VL - 8 IS - 1 PY - 2015 Y1 - 2015/4/01 TI - Physiotherapy Students’ Attitudes to Basic Medical Sciences Courses TT - نگرش دانشجویان فیزیوتراپی نسبت به دروس علوم پایه پزشکی N2 - Aims: Students’ attitude to the basic sciences courses has a considerable impact in their clinical practice. The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of undergraduate and graduate students to the Physiotherapy rather than basic science. Instrument & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done on 151 undergraduate and graduate schools of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Tehran and Iran University of Medical Sciences students using easy access sampling in October and November of 2012. To evaluate the attitude and the importance and effectiveness subscales the West questionnaire was used. Data were analyzed using SPSS 17 software using One-way ANOVA, independent T, and logistic regression tests. Findings: There was a significant difference between the sexes in response to items 1, 4, 7 and 8. The attitudes mean and the importance and effectiveness subscales were greater in women in the bachelor fifth and seventh semesters. The attitude and the importance of women were significantly more positive than men in Master degree students of the first semester, but there was no statistically significant difference between the sexes in the third semester of the Master degree students. Conclusion: Bachelor and Master students' positive attitudes toward physical science is affected by their gender and women pay more attention to learn treatment physiologically details, while men are more likely to emphasize on the results of the treatment. By increasing the presence of women in Master degrees their attitude get closer to men. SP - 7 EP - 14 AU - Vasaghi Gharamaleki B, AU - Nikmaram MR, AU - Rouhi Azizi M, AD - Department of Basic Sciences in Rehabilitation, School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran KW - Attitude KW - Students KW - Therapy KW - Education Graduate UR - http://edcbmj.ir/article-1-733-en.html ER -