التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Proportion of Joint Pain Patients Seeking Physical Therapy in Quetta City |
| المؤلفون: |
Rubina Ahmed, Zain Karim, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Arsalan khan, Pawan kumar, Muhammad Younas |
| المصدر: |
Mader e Milat International Journal of Nursing and Allied Sciences (MINAS), 1(4), 1-26, (2023-12-15) |
| بيانات النشر: |
Zenodo |
| سنة النشر: |
2023 |
| المجموعة: |
Zenodo |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Physical Therapy, Joint Pain, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Physically Handicapped |
| الوصف: |
Physical therapy is one of the most emerging fields in the world due to its different and reliable and beneficiary mode of treatments. According to the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), physical therapists are trained and licensed movement experts. They can diagnose and treat a range of injuries, disabilities, and health conditions. Physical therapists aim to improve a person’s range of movement and quality of life and prevent further injury or disability. Pakistan has a disability rate of (2.65%) with a total of around 5.035 million disabled people. Physical therapy as a profession started in 1956 at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre with a 2-year diploma, later on 4 years bachelors’ program was also started. In 2008, Doctor of Physical Therapy program was initiated. The representative body "Pakistan Physical Therapy Association" was also established in 2008 which then joined the World Confederation for Physical Therapy in 2011. There is plenty of work being done in the field and it has seen a rapid growth in the past decade compared to the last 50 years. Currently, there are 69 institutions in Pakistan offering various physical therapy courses. Awareness of physical therapy in Pakistan is one of the major issues that is currently on the top. Thus, the current study was conducted with the aim to evaluate the proportion of joint pain patients seeking physical therapy in Quetta city. This was a cross-sectional study conducted on general population of Quetta city. An interview Schedule of consisting of 3 parts (Socio-demographic, Pain history, Treatment history) and 20 questions were asked from the people who are currently having joint pain, about 347 interviewees participated in this study after which the data was analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26. A p-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Among the [N=347] participants (48.4%) were male and (51.6%) were female. About (12.1%) of the participants belong to the age group (59-78) and were all ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://zenodo.org/communities/minas; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10446011; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10446012; oai:zenodo.org:10446012 |
| DOI: |
10.5281/zenodo.10446012 |
| الاتاحة: |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10446012 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.E9B36433 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |