2019 Volume 34 Issue 2 Pages 205-209
[Purpose] To objectively examine the guidance-related difficulties faced by clinical training supervisors (supervisors). [Participants and Methods] We conducted a questionnaire survey, asking physical therapists of 42 facilities to voluntarily respond. [Results] The most frequent difficulty faced by the respondents was <students’ poor qualities>, followed by <a lack of self-confidence in providing guidance> and <difficulty in identifying students’ problems>, in this order. In text mining-based analysis of their free descriptions, the most frequent word was “students”, followed by “guidance”, “reports”, “understanding”, and “training”, in this order. The results also revealed a strong correlation with frequent words that were characteristic and related to reporting guidance. Furthermore, geometric figures outlining the relationships among words were created. [Conclusion] It may be necessary to clarify the difficulties faced by supervisors, in order to improve the quality of physical therapy education.
