Unpublished MSc thesis, Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, 2007/03, 81, type of study: ,qs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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questionnaires [12]
WSO [508]
qualitative study [290]

Abstract:

In Austria osteopathy is a fairly young and partly unknown treatment method. Yet it would be important that medical practitioners know about osteopathy so it can become established in certain structures of the health care system. One possibility to find out how much doctors know about osteopathy is to use a questionnaire. On the basis of the information gained through the questionnaire further steps might be taken. The questionnaire also includes questions concerning the doctors’ attitude towards osteopathy and current patterns of behaviour. I set myself the goal to develop such a questionnaire and to analyse the results in my thesis. By means of e-mail I contacted a number of osteopaths to obtain a list of the most important characteristics of osteopathy and the environment in which osteopaths usually work. I put them in a reasonable order and based on the information I designed a questionnaire. Through a test run I wanted to find out about the questionnaire’s relevance thus I tried to acquire as many participants in the preliminary survey as possible by means of personal networking. After a first analysis of the feedback to the preliminary questionnaire I revised and improved the design of the questionnaire. I hope that with the final product I can lay the foundations for follow-up surveys or provide some ideas for future PR work to promote osteopathy.