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

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