Physiotherapy is a type of healing science which helps to make a difference in an individual’s capacity to survive a dynamic and healthy way of life. Any profession that has a vast role to play in the world must have an understandable identity with the community.

Objective: This study was designed to assess the level of awareness, belief, attitude and utilization of physiotherapy services among general population of Punjab.

Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted in different areas of Punjab to determine the awareness, belief, attitude and utilization of physiotherapy services by using convenient sampling technique. Participants were 610, major inclusion criteria of age 15-16 years, having ability to read, respond and understand the questionnaire. Unwilling subjects were excluded. All measures were collected during a single session by spreading self-administered questionnaire to the subjects.

Results:  61.6% of the participants were having knowledge about physiotherapy. Out of these majority of the participants 26.3% got their information about physiotherapy through hospitals. Many of the respondents 88.1% believed that they have needed to know more about physiotherapy. Almost all the participants 95.5% thought that physiotherapy should be in all hospitals. 42.6% were having self-experienced of physiotherapy treatment; out of these 44.7% with fully resolved problems and 78.7% will recommend physiotherapy to other needy patients.

Conclusion: Participants in this study demonstrated a moderate level of awareness, positive beliefs and attitude towards the physiotherapy and also have a moderate level of utilization of physiotherapy services. However, there is still the need to raise the knowledge about physiotherapy among general public of Punjab.

Indexed Terms_ Awareness, Belief, Respondents, Physiotherapy, Services