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Methods: Participants completed a modified version of the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Athletic Therapists online. In addition, the authors measured demographic information, which included sex, age, years of experience, average number of patients with back pain a year, and job setting. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize respondents, and independent Student's t or ANOVA tests were used to identify any differences in scores.

Results: Four hundred eighty-four people responded to the survey and 407 were analyzed. Participants comprised 137 men and 262 women whose ages ranged from 21 to 69 (35.3±9.1) years. The number of respondents per job setting were 81 “college/university,” 20 “secondary schools,” 151 “private clinics,” 44 “specialty clinics,” 54 “sports teams,” 3 “hospital,” 7 “emerging settings,” 14 “academic setting,” and 12 “other.” The mean biomedical score (32.1±6.5) was …