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.