Sunday, May 9, 2010

Health Screening

Screening

Topic:

Compliance to Physiotherapy home programs in patients suffering from osteoarthritis.

Background:



Reasons for choosing the topic:

During our community outreach we came across numerous patients suffering from osteoarthritis. The Physiotherapy outreach programme only visits the respective clinics once a month and therefore we feel it is important to establish whether or not these patients are complaint to their home exercise programs.

Aim of the study:

To establish whether or not patients with osteoarthritis are compliant with their home exercise program.

Target Population:



Objectives:

To establish demographic data of the patients.

To determine the extent to which patients are compliant to their exercise programs.

To establish reasons for non-compiance.



Tools used:

A self-constructed questionnaire will be used.

Ethical Consideration:


Significance of the study:

Method:

A self-constructed questionnaire was developed in three languages namely: English, Venda and Shangaan. These questionnaires were handed out and completed by the participants at the above mentioned clinics. Microsoft Excel was used for data analysis.

Results:




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