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Table 6. The respondents’ results for the question “To what extent
do you believe it is necessary to include the Palliative Care course
in undergraduate studies?”

PT OT
Proposed responses to the question:
N (%) N (%)
not even a little 1 (0.72) 5 (3.68)
to a small extent 9 (6.25) 30 (22.05)
to an average extent 45 (32.61) 62 (48.53)
to a large extent 55 (39.86) 25 (18.38)
to a very large extent 28 (20.29) 10 (7.35)
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 for additional palliative care training, the biggest difference in a particular 27
category of answers is in the category “to a very large extent”: 28 respondents
(20.44%) from the PT group believe that additional training in their profession
is necessary to a very large extent, while 13 respondents from the OT group
(9.56% of them) thought the same (Table 7).

Table 7. The respondents’ results for the question “To what extent
do you believe your profession needs additional palliative care training?” evaluation of student knowledge of palliative care

Proposed responses to the question: PT OT
N (%) N (%)
not even a little 2 (1.46) 3 (2.21)
to a small extent 10 (7.30) 20 (14.71)
to an average extent 45 (32.85) 49 (36.03)
to a large extent 52 (37.96) 51 (37.50)
to a very large extent 28 (20.44) 13 (9.56)

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

The respondents’ results for the question about the need for a PT/OT in
the palliative team, the biggest difference in answers between the two groups is
in the category “to a very large extent”. In the PT group, 29 respondents (21.01%)
gave this answer, while 6 respondents from the OT group (4.41%) answered the
same (Table 8).
The results on whether the respondents see themselves as a PT/OT work-
ing in palliative care show that only (19.57%) of respondents from the PT group,
i.e. 27 out of 138 respondents, can see themselves working in palliative care to
a “large extent” and to a “very large extent”. In the OT group, only 7 respond-
ents (5.15%) out of 136 can see themselves working in palliative care “to a large
extent”, and not a single respondent from this study group can see themselves
working in palliative care “to a very large extent” (Table 9).