A survey of Australian chiropractors’ attitudes and beliefs about evidence-based practice and their use of research literature and clinical practice guidelines

Table 1 Respondent demographic characteristics

	Mean	Standard deviation	National %
Years since registration	15.7	11.0
Gender	No. (n = 515)	%
Females	136	26.4
Age	No. (n = 515)	%
21-30	91	17.9	20.6
31-40	161	31.3	31.7
41-50	120	23.3	23.4
51-60	103	20.0	14.6
61 and above	39	7.6	9.7
State/territory	No. (n = 519)	%
Australian capital territory	13	2.5	1.3
New South Wales	141	27.1	33.4
Northern territory	4	1.0	0.5
Queensland	81	15.6	15.3
South Australia	53	10.5	7.8
Tasmania	5	1.0	1.0
Victoria	133	25.6	26.9
Western Australia	89	17.1	11.3
Practice location
Rural	63	12.3
Regional	124	24.2
Suburban	325	63.5
Membership
Chiropractors’ Association of Australia	365
Chiropractic and Osteopathic College of Australasia	196
Australian Spinal Research Foundation	144
Average work hours per week
Less than twenty	99	19.3
Twenty to thirty	146	28.5
Thirty to forty	193	37.7
More than forty	74	14.5
Average number of patients seen per typical day
Five or less	41	8.0
Six to ten	62	12.1
Eleven to fifteen	65	12.6
Sixteen to twenty	86	16,7
Twenty one to thirty	111	21.6
Thirty one to forty	70	13.6
More than forty	79	15.4

• Questionnaires were returned by 584 respondents. Some questionnaires were incomplete, hence the discrepancy in response numbers between items.

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