Awareness And Attitude Of Physiotherapy Students Towards Telerehabilitation In National Capital Region

Abstract

This article discusses the awareness and attitude of physiotherapy students towards Telerehabilitation in the national capital region is a quantitative approach with a descriptive cross-sectional survey design. Background: Telerehabilitation is a formative platform for patients’ health in most developing nations; it is remarkably increasing its use for enhancing rehabilitation, and it is widespread in most countries evidently; nevertheless, this research is in limited numbers among physiotherapy students; therefore, this study brings information regarding this scenario. Objectives: To assess physiotherapy students’ awareness and attitude towards telerehabilitation using awareness and attitude questionnaires and to find the relationship between them. Method: Based on a quantitative approach and a descriptive cross-sectional survey design. The convenience sampling technique was used on the entrant, who was studying at one of the NCR region’s selected universities. Tools and techniques: demographic proforma, awareness questionnaire, and attitude questionnaire, respectively, on telerehabilitation Result: Using descriptive and inferential statistics, this present study had 301 undergraduate students, and only 3 were postgraduates. The study revealed that 92.4% of students had prior knowledge of telerehabilitation services. The study reported that 98.4% of participants had good awareness and attitudes toward telerehabilitation, and the majority of participants had a positive attitude (92.4%). This study additionally detected the correlation between awareness and attitude scores using Spearman's rho test. However, there was no relationship between them.

Conclusion: The study concluded that a more significant proportion of students have good awareness and a positive attitude toward telerehabilitation, but indicated that there was no relationship between awareness and attitude