TO ASSESS THE ADHERENCE OF PATIENT FOR PHYSIOTHERAPY TREATMENT COMING TO THE PHYSIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENT.

Background: Physiotherapy plays important role in healthcare system offering rehabilitative & preventive care in various musculoskeletal, neurological and cardiovascular condition. Due to factors like prolonged time treatment, high treatment cost and etc patient discontinue the treatment. A problem frequently faced by physiotherapists is that patients may fail to recover from their injury in spite of there being no apparent pathological basis for this poor outcome. This may lead physiotherapists to wrongly think the treatment programmed is not fulfilling the needs of the patients; a decision that is based solely on their physical status. However, had the patients' psychological and behavioral responses to their injury and treatment been taken into account then it is possible poor treatment adherence might have been detected. The degree to which patients adhere to the clinic- and home-based treatment requirements is considered to be responsible in some part for the success of physiotherapy programs. The study enrolled 385 participants. The GRAS Q Methods: uestionnaire was used to assess the adherence for physiotherapy treatment. 62.33% of participants have high adherence as they Results: are more aware of physiotherapy treatment, physical fitness & health conscious. And 21.81% is good adherence, 14.8% is partial adherence & 1% is low adherence due to different kinds of barriers like lack of finances, dependent on family & others, health illiteracy and lack awareness of importance of physiotherapy treatment. Conclusion, the study concludes that in pune region we found that participants have high adherence i.e. 62.33% to physiotherapy treatment coming to physiotherapy OPD.