Table 1. Demographics and workplace characteristic (N=384).

Item	Value
Gender	Male: 64%, Female: 36%
Age	20–29 years: 43%, 30–39 years: 38%, 40–49 years: 16%, 50–59 years: 3%, 60+ years: 0%
Highest degree	Career college: 68%, College: 29%, Master degree: 2%, Doctoral degree: 1%
Primary care experience	<3 years: 17%, 3–5 years: 26%, 6–10 years: 31%, 11–15 years: 15%, 16+ years: 10%
Certification/Specialized qualification	*Certification physical therapist: 3%, Specialized qualification physical therapist: 1%
Work practice (Total number)	Hospital: 256, Home-visit nursing station: 9, Day service/Day care: 56, Clinic: 74, Other: 30
Patient care (Total number)	Acute care hospital: 165, Acute rehabilitation: 82, Subacute rehabilitation: 141, Maintenance Hospital: 216, Other: 11
Number of people at workplace	<3: 23, 3–5: 65, 6–10: 85, 11−15: 54, 15+: 160
Hospital bed (Av ± SD)	220 ± 172 hospital beds

Av: average, SD: standard deviation. *Physical therapists can be certification physical therapists by clinical experiences and paper-tests in Japan. Moreover, certification physical therapists can be specialized qualification physical therapist by earning points of paper productions etc.