2.6 Participants
The study included two purposively selected sets of participants. The first group comprised occupational therapy experts with more than ten years of experience in hand therapy, who were employed at a tertiary education institution in South Africa, and had published in the field. They had extensive knowledge of OBP and experience in survey methodology. The second group consisted of peers who had, or were completing, a post-graduate degree in occupational therapy, and had worked in the field of hand therapy for more than five years, but were no longer actively practicing. This group was recruited so as not to reduce the potential pool of survey participants for a national study to determine KAP nationally.