Awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and barriers of app-based human motion capture technology for rehabilitation, among physiotherapists- An exploratory study

Objectives: With increasing availability of resources in a cost-effective manner, technology must be put to use to maximize the benefits in the physiotherapy assessment and rehabilitation. For that, the preliminary step is to identify the existing awareness, knowledge, practices and barriers of the app-based motion capture technology among physiotherapists. Material and Methods: An indigenous questionnaire was formulated which included 4 domains viz awareness, knowledge, attitudes and barriers. It which was later content and face-validated with the help of experts. After the pilot testing it was sent to physiotherapy professional in Maharashtra in the form of google forms. Results: About 24.26% ( n =49) were not aware of the term MOCAP in rehabilitation. In the quiz of the knowledge section, the participants got a median score of 10 with interquartile range of 8 to 11 marks. There were significant associations between awareness of app-based MOCAP technology among participants with that of highest degree of participants, age and years of passing and between scores of the quiz in the knowledge section with that of age and degree of the participants. Conclusion: We concluded that there is a gap in the awareness of MOCAP among physiotherapy professionals as presented from knowledge quiz scores, attitudes and barriers obtained in the survey.