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Table 1 Demographic background of the chiropractors in the survey compared to the Danish Chiropractor's Association (DCA) and the Norwegian Chiropractor's Association (NCA).

From: The Nordic Maintenance Care Program - Time intervals between treatments of patients with low back pain: how close and who decides?

 

Danish

participants

n = 15

DCA

n = 455

p

Norwegian

participants

n = 11

NCA

n = 397

p

Total in survey

Total DCA and NCA

p

Sex

         

   - Female

67%

51%

0,297

9%

30%

0,187

42%

41%

1,000

   - Male

33%

49%

 

91%

70%

 

58%

59%

 

Age

         

   - 20-29

27%

6%

0,037

0%

16%

0,025

15%

11%

0,261

   - 30-39

27%

31%

 

91%

48%

 

54%

39%

 

   - 40-49

20%

38%

 

0%

18%

 

12%

29%

 

   - 50-49

27%

18%

 

0%

15%

 

15%

16%

 

   - 60 or more

0%

7%

 

9%

3%

 

4%

5%

 

   - missing

-

-

 

-

<1%

 

-

<1%

 

Country of graduation

         

   - DK

53%

33%

0,181

27%

11%

0,479

42%

23%

0,218

   - UK

7%

22%

 

36%

37%

 

19%

29%

 

   - USA/Canada

40%

45%

 

36%

41%

 

39%

43%

 

   - Other

0%

<1%

 

0%

4%

 

0%

2%

 

   - missing

-

<1%

 

-

7%

 

-

3%

 

Clinical experience (years)

         

0-1

13%

7%

0,306

9%

-

 

12%

-

 

2-5

27%

18%

 

7%

-

 

27%

-

 

6-10

13%

10%

 

27%

-

 

19%

-

 

11-19

7%

25%

 

27%

-

 

15%

-

 

more than 20

40%

38%

 

9%

-

 

27%

-

 

missing

-

2%

 

-

-

 

-

-

 

Size of town/village

 

0-20.000

7%

-

 

0%

-

 

4%

-

 

20-100.000

33%

-

 

73%

-

 

50%

-

 

> 100.000

60%

-

 

27%

-

 

46%

-

 

Clinic owner/Employee

         

   - Clinic owner

67%

62%

0,793

82%

-

 

73%

-

 

   - Employee

3%

38%

 

18%

-

 

27%

-

 
  1. Reported in percentages and p-values for the difference between distributions, tested by means of Fisher's exact test.