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you learn about palliative care? is that they learned about the existence of pal-
liative care in secondary school and this was the answer given by 52 respond-
ents of the PT group, or 36.96% of them, and 43 respondents of the OT group,
or (31.62%) of them (Table 4).
In the respondents’ results for the question “Which patients belong to pal-
liative care?”, the respondents from the OT group showed greater knowledge
than the respondents from the PT group. As many as 108 respondents from the
OT group, or (79.41%), answered that those were patients with a chronic in-
curable disease. The same answer was given by only 37 respondents of the PT
group, or (26.81%) of them.

In the respondents’ results for the question “Who makes up the palliative
care team?”, 131 respondents (96.32%) from the OT group answered that all the
specified experts (physician, specialist physicians, nurse, physiotherapist, cler-
gyman, social worker, psychologist) belong to the palliative team, while the
26 same statement was confirmed by only (21.74%) of PT respondents, i.e. 30 of
them.
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Results of the Assessment Index of Students’ Palliative Care Knowledge
In the results of the perceived assessment of the respondents’ palliative care
knowledge for the question “Do you know what palliative care is?”, “I do” and “I
fully know” were the answers given by as many as 98 respondents from the PT
group and 86 respondents from the OT group. The total score of the perceived
assessment of both examined groups (PT and OT) is 4 (Table 5).

Table 5. The respondents’ answers to the question “Do you know what
palliative care is?”

PT OT
Proposed responses to the question:
N (%) N (%)
I don’t know at all 4 (2.90) 2 (1.47)
I am familiar with the term, but I don’t know exactly what it is 11 (7.97) 14 (10.29)
I somewhat know the meaning of the term 25 (18.12) 34 (25)
I know the meaning of the term 57 (41.30) 73 (53.68)
I fully know the meaning of the term 41 (29.71) 13 (9.56)

PT – physiotherapy group; OT – occupational therapy group; N (%) – number of respondents
(percentage of respondents)

In the respondents’ assessment results for the question about the neces-
sity of including the Palliative Care course in the undergraduate study of PT
and OT, 83 respondents (60.15%) of the total number of respondents of the PT
group, stated that the course was necessary “to a large extent” and “to a very
large extent”. In the OT group, 35 respondents (25.73%) of the total number of
the OT group respondents gave answers in the above two categories .