Table 1.
Characteristics of the participants (focus groups, n = 58). – -
| Total | Orthopaedics (back pain) | Orthopaedics (THR, TKR)* |
Neurology | Oncology | Addiction | Psychosomatics | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | M (Range SD) | n | M (Range SD) | n | M (Range SD) | n | M (Range SD) | n | M (Range SD) | n | M (Range SD) | n | M (Range SD) | |
| Characteristic | ||||||||||||||
| Number of participants | 58 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 10 | |||||||
| Form of carea | ||||||||||||||
| Inpatient | 47 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | |||||||
| Outpatient | 29 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||||
| Age (in years) | 45 (28–1 ± 10) | 44 (28–58 ± 12) | 50 (39–57 ± 7) | 45 (34–53 ± 6) | 44 (28–56 ± 11) | 45 (28–58 ± 10) | 43 (30–60 ± 10) | |||||||
| Gender | ||||||||||||||
| Female | 24 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Male | 34 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 6 | |||||||
| Head of exercise therapy department | ||||||||||||||
| Yes | 50 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | |||||||
| Nob | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Educational background | ||||||||||||||
| Physiotherapy | 22 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| Exercise therapyc / sport science | 38 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | |||||||
| Other | 12 | 1 | 4 | 2 | – | 3 | 2 | |||||||
| Professional experience (in years) | ||||||||||||||
| Educational background in physiotherapy | 21 (4–35 ± 9) | 24 (8–35 ± 12) | 22 (18–31 ± 5) | 23 (19–28 ± 3) | 26 (18–34 ± 8) | 5– | 13 (4–24 ± 10) | |||||||
| Educational background in exercise therapy / sport science | 17 (2–39 ± 10) | 18 (3–39 ± 13) | 19 (2–35 ± 14) | 14 (5–22 ± 8) | 11 (2–28 ± 12) | 18 (6–31 ± 8) | 19 (10–34 ± 9) | |||||||
Notes. (THR, TKR)* = total hip replacement, total knee replacement; amultiple answers possible; bwere sent to represent the head of the department; cin Germany, this refers to the education of Sport und Bewegungstherapie