AWARENESS AND PERCEPTION OF PHYSIOTHERAPY PROFESSION AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS: A POPULATION BASED SURVEY

The objective of this study was to investigate the awareness of Physical Therapy among undergraduate students. A cross sectional survey was administrated from undergraduate students of different universities of Gujranwala. Opinion from Participants was taken regarding there awareness level about physical therapy. For this purpose, a well-structured questionnaire was used to investigate about awareness of physical therapy. SPSS software and Microsoft excel was used for Data analysis. We have found that most of the participants were males. The main barrier of not having knowledge about this field is lack of interest of students towards this as they consider it not a well-developed field. Most of the students have just basic knowledge about the term physical therapy. We concluded that awareness of physical therapy needs to be improved among undergraduate students of Gujranwala. Keywords: Awareness, Physical therapy, undergraduates