In the following the findings from study I – IV have been merged and abstracted
across all four studies to formulate the main findings of the present thesis.
Physiotherapists in Danish private practice have a general interest in ethics and
they consider awareness of ethical issues to be an important aspect of
physiotherapeutic professionalism (Study I; II; III). Through the analytic processes
a great diversity in understandings of what constitute ethical issues is shown
(Study I; II). The physiotherapists’ reflections about ethical issues in
physiotherapeutic practice are primarily based on personal common sense
arguments, intuitive feelings of ethics and reflections about professional obligation
(Study I).