Compliance with hand therapy programs: therapists' and patients' perceptions.

Aim: This study explored patients' and hand therapists' perceptions of compliance with hand therapy and compared these perceptions.

Method: Forty-one patients attending hand therapy at a large metropolitan hospital and 69 hand therapists, all members of the Australian Hand Therapy Association, were interviewed by telephone using a questionnaire developed for the study. Demographic data were analyzed descriptively and patients' and therapists' perceptions compared using chi-square.