Compliance with hand therapy programs: therapists' and patients' perceptions.

摘要

AIM: This study explored patients' and hand therapists' perceptions of compliance with hand therapy and compared these perceptions. METHOD: Forty-one patients attending hand therapy at a large metropolitan hospital and 69 hand therapists, all members of the Australian Hand Therapy Association, were interviewed by telephone using a questionnaire developed for the study. Demographic data were analyzed descriptively and patients' and therapists' perceptions compared using chi-square. RESULTS: Patients' and therapists' perceptions differed at a statistically significant level (p < 0.01, adjusted alpha rate) for 24 of the 33 items measuring perceptions of compliance with hand therapy. CONCLUSIONS: Therapists and patients have differing perceptions of compliance.