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Awareness of Physiotherapy among Higher Secondary Students and Perseverance among Physiotherapy Students and Professionals in Meerut - A Survey


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Introduction & Purpose of the study

Physiotherapy is concerned with health promotion, prevention of disease or injury, treatment&rehabilitation. Physiotherapy is in existence in India since 5 decades but it has been observed in last 5-6 years that number of students pursuing physiotherapy as their career is declining as well as number of physiotherapy students and professionals continuing the profession is also declining. Thus the purpose of our study is to find out awareness of physiotherapy among higher secondary students & perseverance among student s& professionals in physiotherapy.

Material & Method

It is a questionnaire based survey. Subjects included in the study were higher secondary students, B.P.T. final year students, interns, M.P.T. students & physiotherapy professionals. Data was collected by making personal visits to various colleges, hospitals&clinics in Meerut and questionnaire was distributed to 109 subjects (46 higher secondary students, 51 B.P.T. 4th year students&interns and 12 M.P.T. students&physiotherapy professionals).

Results

Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. 41% of higher secondary students had an idea about physiotherapy, 26% of higher secondary students wanted to pursue physiotherapy as their career, and 10% of BPT 4th yr Students and interns did not want to continue with their profession while on the other hand 100% of MPT students and physiotherapy professionals wanted to continue with their profession.

Conclusion

Awareness of physiotherapy is still lacking among higher secondary students and perseverance in the profession among students and interns is declining.


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Awareness, Perseverance, Physiotherapy, Professionals
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Authors

Yashaswi Agarwal
Department of Physiotherapy, College of Applied Education and Health Sciences, Meerut, India
Manish Agarwal
Department of Physiotherapy, College of Applied Education and Health Sciences, Meerut, India
Nalina Gupta
Department of Physiotherapy, College of Applied Education and Health Sciences, Meerut, India

Abstract


Introduction & Purpose of the study

Physiotherapy is concerned with health promotion, prevention of disease or injury, treatment&rehabilitation. Physiotherapy is in existence in India since 5 decades but it has been observed in last 5-6 years that number of students pursuing physiotherapy as their career is declining as well as number of physiotherapy students and professionals continuing the profession is also declining. Thus the purpose of our study is to find out awareness of physiotherapy among higher secondary students & perseverance among student s& professionals in physiotherapy.

Material & Method

It is a questionnaire based survey. Subjects included in the study were higher secondary students, B.P.T. final year students, interns, M.P.T. students & physiotherapy professionals. Data was collected by making personal visits to various colleges, hospitals&clinics in Meerut and questionnaire was distributed to 109 subjects (46 higher secondary students, 51 B.P.T. 4th year students&interns and 12 M.P.T. students&physiotherapy professionals).

Results

Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. 41% of higher secondary students had an idea about physiotherapy, 26% of higher secondary students wanted to pursue physiotherapy as their career, and 10% of BPT 4th yr Students and interns did not want to continue with their profession while on the other hand 100% of MPT students and physiotherapy professionals wanted to continue with their profession.

Conclusion

Awareness of physiotherapy is still lacking among higher secondary students and perseverance in the profession among students and interns is declining.


Keywords


Awareness, Perseverance, Physiotherapy, Professionals