Community awareness about attitude and knowledge of daily used footwear and risk related to footwear problems
Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth’s college of physiotherapy, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Research Article
World Journal of Biology Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 2023, 13(02), 330–338.
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjbphs.2023.13.2.0108
Publication history:
Received on 09 January 2023; revised on 17 February 2023; accepted on 20 February 2023
Abstract:
Objective: Footwear preferences can relate to a lot of musculoskeletal problems, it is important to know about the awareness healthy individuals have amongst them this study was designed to determine the knowledge and awareness a normal individual has related to their daily footwear and risk related to the same, also physiotherapy is taken as an intervention or treatment was also analyzed in the study.
Method: A cross sectional survey was carried out through google forms among the individuals within the age of 15-35 years using a self-administered questionnaire .200 ambulatory subjects were invited.
Result: According to the study 60% people thought heels to be the worst type of footwear, : 64% people know their footwear size 23% people don’t know their footwear size 13% are unsure , 37.2% people have pain due to footwear 48% do not experience any pain and 14.8% are unsure if the Pain is due to footwear , 80% people don’t know about footwear expiry 20% do ,66% people are aware about physiotherapy help 20% are unaware and 14% say they may or may not know about it.
Conclusion: So over all interpretation of study shows that the people were aware of their shoes size but are not aware of health problems caused by footwear including the consequences caused by ill-fitting footwear.
Keywords:
Footwear; Awareness; Physiotherapy intervention; Musculoskeletal problems; Risk
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