Attitudes and beliefs about knowledge of chronic neck pain among final year MBBS and physiotherapy students

摘要

This Cross sectional observational study was conducted to determine the attitude and behavior about knowledge of chronic neckpain in final year MBBS students and final year physiotherapy students at Riphah College of Rehabilitation Sciences Faisalabad andUniversity of Medical and Dental College, Faisalabad. A self-modified questionnaire was used for data collection which wascomprised of two sections; First section, was related to questions regarding demographic information while second section wasrelated to questions regarding knowledge of chronic pain in different domains.The study included 200 students 100 from each degree (MBBS and DPT). Among MBBS students 23% got knowledge of chronic neckpain from lectures, 45% from books, 14% from articles and 18% from social media. Whereas, among students of DPT, 46% gotknowledge from lectures, 32% from books, 16% from articles and 5% from social media. The results regarding the relationshipamong neck pain and abnormalities, inflammation and injury showed that 86% students from MBBS and 95% students from DPTagreed that abnormalities, inflammatory and injury are causes of chronic neck pain.Conclusion: Most of the beliefs, knowledge and awareness possessed by groups i.e. MBBS and DPT students in almost of the samefrequency with slight variations however, DPT students consider this disorder as of high concern as most of them believes that it canlead to the disability whereas less number of MBBS students think so.