Participants
Ethics approval for the data collection was granted by the University of Technology, Sydney, and Human Ethics Committee (# 2014000759). The Australian Osteopathy Practice Based Research Network (PBRN) as part of the Osteopathy Research and Innovation Network (ORION) project15 was used to recruit participants from July to December 2016. Potential participants were required to be a registered osteopath at the time of data collection. Participants who consented were invited to complete an online questionnaire (Supplementary File 2). Responses to the ORION questionnaire were received from 992 osteopaths – a 49.1% response rate. Adams and colleagues15 report the respondents to be nationally-representative of the Australian osteopathy profession at the time of data collection.