Caring Behavior of Health Professionals: Its Implication to Clinical Practice

Abstract

Health professionals’ behavior play a vital role in the care patient for it has been assumed that effective
behavior promotes a caring relationship leading to an outcome that is therapeutic to both. The purpose of this
study was to ascertain the caring behavior demonstrated by the health professionals based on the perspectives
of allied health students and its propositions to clinical practice though patients’ point of view. Sequential
Explanatory Strategy of the mixed method research design was employed where survey and conduct of key
informant interview were the strategies employed in the collection of data. Weighted means were used to
represent how caring behavior was demonstrated by the health professionals. Independent T-test was utilized
to validate the difference of caring behavior demonstrated while thematic data analysis for the data collected
during interviews. It was found that caring behaviors of health professionals were demonstrated the same
and has no difference. Indeed, caring behavior of academicians is an essential element in developing a
learner’s personality as future health professional. It is a must to uphold and disseminate the critical aspects
of the caring behavior among learners in developing them as future health professional practitioners.