Evaluation of Patient Satisfaction after 10 Kinesitherapy Sessions at Dschang District Hospital, Cameroon

Abstract

Physiotherapy is that part of medicine which, in its multidisciplinary, affects almost all medical fields. It therefor operates in different techniques to empower patients in a drive to rehabilitate, and restore functional capacities, by maintaining, strengthening, and restoring them. Despite the history of this discipline and its proven evidence, physiotherapy turns out to be always in the shadows because very little known by a large number of Cameroonians. The objective of this study is to promote physiotherapy by evidence of its importance in the management of chronic and acute pathologies, by assessing the satisfaction rate of patients after 10 physiotherapy sessions at the HDD. Our descriptive prospective study was conducted from February 12 to May 12, 2020, using a 4 part questionnaire, and 32 questions including, 09 reliable questions, used for data collection. The data thus collected after compliance with the inclusion criteria were analyses using the Epi info V3.5.3 software and presented in the form of tables and graphs using Excel and Word software. 36 participants participated in the study, therefor 22 are women and 14 are men. At the end of this study, 03 participants had a satisfaction rate below 50%, 30% for two patients and 40% for one of them. On the other hand, 33 patients recorded a satisfaction rate above 50% ranging from 65% to 95% after 10 sessions. At the end of this study, it's emerges that physiotherapy improves the defective condition of patients after 10 sessions. However, it remains imperative to increase the promotion of physiotherapy by virtue of it for well-being of all in city of Dschang in particular and in Cameroon in general.