Results of the task analysis study sports physical therapy section american physical therapy association

A survey instrument containing 1 13 sports physical therapy job tasks was developed by a committee of experts at the Combined Sections Meeting, American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), in Orlando, FL, on February 8-1 1, 1978. The committee was assisted by the Committee on Competencies, APTA, and a representative from Courseware, Inc. The instrument was then sent to 1074 members of the Section for the purposes of identifying the clinical tasks in which competency is essential to practice effectively and of determining to what extent members are practicing these clinical tasks. Two major mailings were sent, in October 1978 and January 1979; 573 forms were returned for a response rate of 53.4%. Seventy returned forms were not used because they were incomplete or incorrectly filled out (35), were not deliverable (23), or were sent to those that were no longer members of the Section (12). The response rate of usable forms was 50.1 %.J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 1980;1(4):229-238.