Assessing and Comparing Global Health Competencies in Rehabilitation Students

Table 2

Physiotherapy and occupational therapy students’ self-perceived knowledge in global health.

Domains of self-perceived knowledge	Physiotherapy students’ score* (%)	Occupational therapy students’ score* (%)
Language barrier and adverse impact on health and health care	65.67	57.65
Access to health care for low income nations	25.74	29.59
Relationship between income and health	71.32	76.53
Relationship between work and health	68.38	81.63
SEP and impact on health	64.71	67.86
Environmental health and socioeconomic position	47.06	53.06
Relationship between housing and health status	55.15	54.12
SEP and food security confidence	54.41	48.47
Health outcome discrepancies among different groups in Canada	39.71	40.82
Mechanisms for why racial and ethnic disparities exist	32.35	31.12
Racial stereotyping and medical decision making	36.76	38.54
Gender and access to health care	42.65	40.82

∗Average perceived knowledge and skills percentage for each domain varied for item scale between 0 and 1 (item scale [0-1]: 0 = not at all confident; 0.5 = somewhat confident; 1 = very confident).