Barriers and facilitators towards physiotherapists’ use of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) to improve patients’ adherence to treatment

Purpose: Patient adherence to physiotherapy treatment recommendations is less than optimal. This can lead to poor outcomes across a range of clinical and service level measures including patient satisfaction, long‐term morbidity and increased prevalence of long‐term conditions. Physiotherapists have been found to only use a small number of behaviour change techniques (BCTs) in consultations, despite evidence that these can help to improve outcomes in a range of domains including adherence. The dataset arose from a project aiming to explore physiotherapists perceived barriers and facilitators to utilising BCTs in clinical practice. Methods: Fourteen qualified physiotherapists recruited from a higher education institution and a national healthcare provider participated in semi‐structured interviews and reflexive thematic analysis was conducted thereafter.