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.