Questionnaire
A 27-item questionnaire was developed to collect data from the PRBN participants using dichotomous, frequency and Likert-type responses.15 The questionnaire invited participants to provide data on individual practitioner demographics (i.e. age, gender, and number of years in private osteopathy practice), participants’ practice characteristics (i.e. patient care hours and patient visits per week, practice location and interactions with other health professionals either through co-location or referrals), and patient management (i.e. body regions treated, manual therapy technique use, advice to patients). Additional items also explored practitioner opinion on expanded practice rights and use of research in osteopathy practice. Patient management characteristics included frequency of patient presentations, discussion of lifestyle behaviors, frequency of treating specific patient groups, and frequency of osteopathy technique use.