Exploring the awareness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in management plans for chronic pain patients amongst UK trained osteopaths: A bespoke cross-sectional questionnaire study.
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- Title
- Exploring the awareness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in management plans for chronic pain patients amongst UK trained osteopaths: A bespoke cross-sectional questionnaire study.
- Author(s)
- Drury, B
- Abstract
- Background: Chronic pain (CP) affects more than 28 million people in the UK. Current pain theory emphasizes the psychological nature of the CP experience. ACT has been demonstrated to be very effective in reducing the functional disability associated with CP. Currently, no study has surveyed UK trained osteopaths for their awareness of ACT in the context of CP management plans in order to facilitate comprehensive care for CP patients. Objective: This study intended to explore the factors influencing the awareness of ACT and its integration into CP management plans amongst UK trained osteopaths. Design: Bespoke cross-sectional online questionnaire, informed by Jette et al. (2003). Method: All UK trained osteopaths currently registered with GOsC (n= 2,426) were invited to participate via email with a link to the online questionnaire to explore their participant demographic and practice characteristics and their awareness of ACT, mindfulness, and OsteoMAP. Analyses were performed using advanced linear fit models to determine associations between participants’ responses with demographic and practice characteristics such as age, gender, other degree(s) held, involvement in osteopathy outside of clinical practice, number of years in practice, type of practice location, components of osteopathic education, and experience with CP patients. Results: 329 questionnaires were analysed (response rate 13.3%). Awareness of ACT was generally low. Few significant associations were found between participant characteristics and awareness of ACT and OsteoMAP, and previous experience integrating ACT or participating in OsteoMAP; however, all were poorly predictive. Discussion: Generalized lack of awareness of ACT cannot be sufficiently attributed to any participant characteristics, but could possibly be attributed to the research-practice gap, lack of high quality evidence supporting practice guidelines, or the rejection of practice guidelines by UK osteopaths. This study provides an important benchmark for future studies to monitor changes in ACT awareness following evolutions in the profession and to further monitor the research-practice gap within osteopathy. Conclusion: UK trained osteopaths are unaware of ACT in general, which may highlight a need for change within the profession.
- presented at
- European School of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2019
- Date Submitted
- 19.11.2019 18:31:06
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 16492
- Inst-Identifier
- 1229
- Keywords
- ACT, Awareness, Chronic pain, Osteopathy
- Recommended
- 0
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- Thesis
Drury, B, “Exploring the awareness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in management plans for chronic pain patients amongst UK trained osteopaths: A bespoke cross-sectional questionnaire study.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 2, 2025, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/337