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.