Table 3.

Confidence level of physiotherapists and family physicians in shoulder pain management

	PT (n = 146)		FP (n = 74)
Confidence in…	n	(%)	n	(%)	p-value a
…making an appropriate diagnosis
Highly confident	93	64	22	30	< 0.001*
Moderatly confident	49	34	41	55
Not confident	4	3	11	15
…selecting appropriate investigations
Highly confident	70	48	31	42	0.32
Moderatly confident	62	43	39	53
Not confident	14	10	4	5
…adequately referring to medical MSK specialists
Highly confident	77	53	31	42	0.31
Moderatly confident	57	39	35	47
Not confident	12	8	8	11
…selecting appropriate treatments
Highly confident	118	81	32	43	< 0.001*
Moderatly confident	25	17	37	50
Not confident	3	2	5	7

PT Physiotherapists, FP Family physicians, MSK Musculoskeletal

^*p < 0.05

^a Fishers tests were used to compare family physicians and physiotherapists