A kisállat-fizioterápia állatorvosi és állattulajdonosi megítélése Magyarországon. (Hungarian)

Veterinarians' and pet owners' attitude to small animal physiotherapy in Hungary. (English)

Background: Physiotherapy became a relatively widely used supplementary treatment in the Hungarian small animal veterinary clinics. Objectives: The aim of the study was to survey the veterinarians' and pet owners' attitude to small animal physiotherapy in Hungary. Materials and Methods: We complied two questionnaires: one for pet owners (it was available in both printed and online forms) and one for veterinarians (only online access), and they could be filled between June and September 2019. Altogether 200 responses from pet owners and 100 from veterinarians were received, and the collected data were processed by using Microsoft Excel™ program. Results and Discussion: The results show that the vast majority (94%) of pet owner respondents was aware of small animal physiotherapy, and out of them 99% are willing to employ it if required. The pet owners' information sources about physiotherapy were mainly the therapist (47.3%) and the Internet (47.3%), but the veterinarian also has an important role (39.9%). Majority of pet owner respondents (81.5%) was willing to pay max. 18.8 euro per treatment and 61.5% of them would take their animals to a therapist max. once a week, the others even more often. In the choice of a therapist, the recommendation of other dog owners was the most common (46.5%), but 37.9% decided according to the vet's advice. Vast majority (88%) of veterinary respondents would recommend physiotherapy to their clients, if they see it justified, and in these cases 66% of them would require consultation with the therapist. Accordingly, 28% of vet respondents work at a clinic, where physiotherapy is already provided and further 24% of the surveyed practices are planning to introduce it in short or medium term. Most veterinarians (67.7%) expected an income per treatment of up to 21.9 euros. Furthermore, 47.1% of the vet respondents are willing to invest more than 1.563 euros into physiotherapy equipment, and 76% of them would encourage vets and/or assistants to take part in a physiotherapy training, and 64.5% of the vets would support their employees financially to complete the course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A szerzők felmérték a kisállat-fizioterápia állattulajdonosi és állatorvosi megítélését Magyarországon. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy az állattulajdonosok 94%-a hallott már a kisállat-fizioterápiáról, és túlnyomó többségük igénybe is venné a kezelést, ha szükséges, jellemzően hetente egyszer, max. 6000 Ft/alkalom összegért. Az állatorvosok 28%-a dolgozik olyan rendelőben, ahol már nyújtanak ilyen szolgáltatást, és további 24%-nál tervezik a bevezetését. A legtöbb állatorvos fontosnak tartja a fizioterápiás továbbképzést és max. 7000 Ft nagyságú összeget vár el egy kezelésért, továbbá közel felük félmillió Ft-nál is többet lenne hajlandó fizioterápiás eszközökbe beruházni. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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