Table 4 Association between the respondent characteristics and the percentage of new patients requiring a non-musculoskeletal examination and the percentage of these patients for which the chiropractors performed the non-musculoskeletal examination
Respondents’ characteristics | % of new patients needing a N-MSK examination | % of patients requiring a N-MSK examination for which the respondents performed the N-MSK examination | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean (SD) | p-value | Mean (SD) | p-value | ||
Complete sample | 32.7 (28.1) | – | 58.8 (36.1) | – | |
Gender | Men | 28.3% (26.4) | 0.043 | 60.5% (34.4) | 0.57 |
Women | 37.2% (29.1) | 57.3% (37.8) | |||
Educational institution for chiropractic training | UQTR | 33.9% (26.6) | 0.045 | 57.0% (35.3) | 0.29 |
CMCC | 19.9% (21.6)1 | 56.4% (40.0) | |||
Other | 39.0% (36.9) | 69.6% (36.1) | |||
Post-graduate chiropractic studies | None | 32.4% (27.7) | 0.99 | 62.4% (35.1) | 0.09 |
MSc/PhD | 34.5% (29.4) | 41.1% (36.1) | |||
Specialty/fellow/diplomate | 32.3% (28.4) | 57.1% (38.8) | |||
r | p-value | r | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of chiropractic working hours per week | 0.03 | 0.71 | 0.01 | 0.86 | |
Number of years of practice in the chiropractic profession | − 0.09 | 0.25 | − 0.03 | 0.75 |