Role of cardiopulmonary physiotherapy in education and society among physiotherapy students: a survey

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Pooja Kesharwani., Arajit Das and Suchit S.Shetty

Aim: To find out the impact role of cardiopulmonary physiotherapy in education and society among physiotherapy students of Teerthanker Mahaveer University, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Background: According to department of health cardiac rehabilitation aims to restore an individual with heart disease to their optimal level of physical, psychological, social and vocational well-being.Physiotherapy is a profession concerned with helping to restore wellness to people by providing them good quality of life.Positioning describes the use of body position as a specific treatment technique. Dean E stated that positioning is used with the aim to improve of ventilation/perfusion (V’/Q’) matching, lung volumes and mucociliary clearance, to reduce the work of breathing (WOB) and the work of heart.
Methodlogy: A total of 176 subjects were recruited conveniently as per the inclusive and exclusive criteria. The subjects then passed through a questionnaire only after given voluntary written consent. Their opinion on “Role Of cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy in Education and Society among Physiotherapy Students” was measured by using questionnaire.
Results: It was observed that 837 are strongly agree with the average % of 47.55%, 855 are agree with the average % of 48.57%,57 are disagree with the average % of 3.23%,and 11 are strongly disagree with the average % of 0.62%.The results was taken out of 1760 of total opinion.
Conclusion: This study concluded that major numbers of physiotherapy students are aware and agreed about the need of cardiopulmonary physiotherapy in education and society. Although for carrier point of view cardiopulmonary physiotherapy program provides practicing physiotherapists with an opportunity to study for a specialized post graduate qualification which will significantly contribute towards carrier development.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2018.11589.2009
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