1MPT Student (Community Rehabilitation), SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, India
2Professor, Faculty of Physiotherapy, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, India
3Professor and Head, Heritage Institute of Medical Sciences, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Online published on 14 October, 2021.
Physiotherapy is a health care profession. Physiotherapy plays a significant role in all levels of health. Interaction between various disciplines of medicine within a health care team is becoming recognized more and more as an effective method of improving the delivery of health care services. Members of the health care team need to understand and respect each other's professional abilities, in order to achieve interdisciplinary teamwork.
To find out the extent of knowledge about physiotherapy services among medical sciences students and to analyse the current level of awareness.
This was a cross sectional survey study. 249 student's participants were involved in the study using convenient sampling from SGT University. The ethical clearance conducted by institutional ethical review Board. Students were involved from four different department viz. MBBS, BDS, BAMS, Nursing. Every students fill the structured questionnaire in the prescribed format. The data collected was analysed by using frequency and percentage in Microsoft 2007.
The respondents displayed that 63% of healthcare profession students had awareness and 61% had good knowledge about physiotherapy.
The study clearly states that there is a good awareness and knowledge among health care profession students about physiotherapy. We also found the lack of knowledge and awareness which can be improved by educating them on different direction of physiotherapy to the students of health care profession. Among all the profession MBBS and BDS students are slightly more aware and have more knowledge regarding physiotherapy profession.
Physiotherapy, Awareness, Knowledge, Health care profession students
