Female Physiotherapists

Topics: School-leaving date; graduation; profession desired before the start of studies; reasons for taking up studies and most important criteria for the choice of profession; date of start of studies at the school of physiotherapy; evaluation of training; type of professional activities after graduation; hours of work; activities abroad; work carried out in salaried employment or free-lance, as well as advantages of each; number of employees; vacation time; participation in further education courses and attitude to professional further education; reading of technical journals; job satisfaction (scale); estimation of the professional prestige of physiotherapists; qualification profile of this profession; number and type of individual or group treatments; conflicts with related occupational groups; estimated proportion of psychological causes for illness; success ratio of physiotherapy treatments; relations with patients; expected income; reference groups in the profession; tasks of a professional organization for physiotherapists; present and former membership as well as type of membership in professional organization.

Also encoded were: whether the respondent waived anonymity on return of the questionnaire as well as date of return. Demography: age (classified); marital status; number of children; age and number of siblings; religious denomination; school education; employment; income; social origins; regional origins.