3.1. Demographic and professional factors
Table 2 shows the demographic and professional factors of
physiotherapists in Bangladesh. Participants were dominated by young age
groups where 66% were from 26-35 years’ age group. 76.8% of
participants were male while the percentage of graduate and
post-graduate physiotherapists were the same (49.2% vs 50.8%). 44.7%
physiotherapists were specialized in musculoskeletal physiotherapy
followed by no specialization group (28.1%). 63.6% physiotherapists
have been graduated from the private institute and 31.2% worked in
general hospital/clinic followed by 30.7% and 26.7% worked in
rehabilitation institutes and private chambers respectively. More than
half of the physiotherapists (54.8%) were non-government service holder
and 32.9% are self-employed. Among all the participants, 87.7% worked
in town and the majority (67.1%) have the patient load in between 1-5
patients per day.