Satisfaction of patients after receiving physiotherapy treatment for their knee osteoarthritis from Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed.

Abstract

Purpose:The purpose of the study was to find out the patient’s satisfaction towards physiotherapy treatment for knee osteoarthritis from CRP.Objectives: To gather patient’sconcepts, ideas, needs and recommendation’s towards physiotherapy treatment, to find outthe satisfaction or dissatisfaction of patients along with their reasons, to identify theunderstanding between patients and the clinical physiotherapists, to find out patients satisfaction about their functional activities after taking physiotherapy treatment, to find out the significance andimportance of physiotherapy in their daily living and to gather the patients’opinions towards the overall environment and duration of treatment times.Methodology:Qualitative researchmethod was used with self-administered questionnaire. Data analysis:Qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results & Discussion:Nine participants (Male: Female = 2:7) were interviewed at Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), Savar,Dhaka. Ten separatethemes were identified from this study. The major findings of the theme were; every participant expressed their satisfaction towards physiotherapy treatment of CRP, in here overallenvironment was perfect. Duration & frequency which was selected and organized by theauthoritywas enough for the participants, there was a good understanding between patients & thetherapist. Conclusion:This study is a reflection of patient's satisfaction towards the physiotherapy treatment. Finally, the results indicated that almost all of the patients weresatisfied with physiotherapy treatment for their knee osteoarthritis and they rated it as highly satisfactory.Most of them agreed that they would use the same health facilities in future if needarises. This is also the first study in this area. Keywords: Knee osteoarthritis, Physiotherapy,Patient’s satisfaction.