The Osteopaths’ Therapeutic Approaches Questionnaire (Osteo-TAQ) – A content validity study
Osteopathy requires reliable and valid research tools to generate evidence on the different aspects of practice including how practitioners approach the clinical care of patients. Such research will help the osteopathy profession understand its contribution to healthcare provision and communicate this to stakeholders. However, current quantitative tools to measure the different aspects of osteopathic practice are either focused on single pain conditions or developed from other health professional contexts. The Osteopaths’ Therapeutic Approaches Questionnaire (Osteo-TAQ) is a novel tool developed from qualitative research and aims to measure and describe multiple dimensions of osteopaths’ therapeutic approach to patient care. The aim of this study was to further develop the Osteo-TAQ to assess the content validity of the tool … ABSTRACT