2.6 Participants
The study included two purposively selected sets of participants. The
first group comprised occupational therapy experts with more than ten
years of experience in hand therapy, who were employed at a tertiary
education institution in South Africa, and had published in the field.
They had extensive knowledge of OBP and experience in survey
methodology. The second group consisted of peers who had, or were
completing, a post-graduate degree in occupational therapy, and had
worked in the field of hand therapy for more than five years, but were
no longer actively practicing. This group was recruited so as not to
reduce the potential pool of survey participants for a national study to
determine KAP nationally.