Prevalence of Restless Leg Syndrome among physiotherapy professionals An observational study

Ethical clearance will be obtained from institutional ethical committee of KAHER Institute of physiotherapy , Belagavi. Study will be registered under CTRI, After which the study will commence All Physiotherapists working in Private/ Government hospitals, clinicians, Physiotherapists providing home based services and academicians will be enrolled in the study. The purpose and need of the study will be explained to all participants; the confidentiality of the subject will be maintained and inform consent will be obtained from each participant and Inform Consent will be obtained from each participants after which they will be screened for inclusion and exclusion criteria prior to the enrolment into the study.

Data will be collected through Google form, which contains demographic details of each study participants and which will contain 10 questions based on IRLS Scale which is our diagnostic tool to identify and classify severity of restless leg syndrome, the form will be forwarded via multimedia platform such as whatsApp and email, circulated through contacts and sampling would be convince sampling. IRLS will feature questions related to restless leg syndrome, work related stress, and hence this tool proves to be effective in understanding the causes of restless leg syndrome.

Data will then be collected, tabulated and analysed using SPSS software