Attitudes of healthcare students and professionals toward patients with physical disability: a systematic review.

Objective: Negative healthcare provider attitudes toward patients with physical disabilities may challenge the delivery of quality care to patients. The objective of this study was to systematically review published studies examining the attitudes of healthcare students and professionals toward patients with physical disabilities.

Design: In October 2011, we searched four electronic databases using the OVID platform.

Validated instruments used to measure attitudes of healthcare students and professionals towards patients with physical disability: a systematic review.

Background: Instruments to detect changes in attitudes towards people with disabilities are important for evaluation of training programs and for research. While we were interested in instruments specific for medical students, we aimed to systematically review the medical literature for validated survey instruments used to measure attitudes of healthcare students and professionals towards patients with physical disability.

Methods: We electronically searched Medline, EMBASE, PsycINFO, Health and Psychosocial Instruments.