144 subjects ranked 9 colour samples in order of appropriateness for the walls of a simulated domestic interior furnished in one of 3 styles. Inter-subject agreement varied as a function of sex and marital status, with indications of an interaction between these variables. No age-related effects were observed. The results are interpreted in terms of a categorization model.

This study, a replication of one carried out in England, describes a survey of journal readership by physiotherapists in hospital practice in Australia. The results reveal that, besides a high and widespread readership of newsletters, more than 90 per cent of respondents read journals other than the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. There was moderate but extensive readership of other physiotherapy literature, while readership of non-physiotherapy literature was infrequent but widespread. Respondents who were registered for postgraduate education displayed a more extensive readership. A comparison of the studies in England and Australia reveals the similarity of results between those with a degree background in both countries.

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This study concerned the adoption of scientific method by the physiotherapy profession, with pain measurement as the research focus. It involved an audit of 1010 patient records from four hospital physiotherapy departments in England, to determine how pain was assessed and recorded. The results show that while pain assessment was recorded in most of the cases audited, there was no record of reassessment in 29 per cent of cases. In the initial assessment only 21 per cent of cases involved quantified methods, reducing to less than 2 per cent during reassessment. These results indicate that the use of recognised quantified methods for pain assessment was not standard practice amongst the physiotherapists audited. Implications for the adoption of scientific method are discussed.