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Table 6 Low back pain guidelines adherence to advice on activity by chiropractors in the vignettes: result of uni-variable logistic mixed model using groups by latent profile analysis based on the PABS.PT score

From: Is the use of diagnostic imaging and the self-reported clinical management of low back pain patients influenced by the attitudes and beliefs of chiropractors? A survey of chiropractors in the Netherlands and Belgium

Overall adherence:

Low back pain guideline adherence in the vignette (% (95% CI))

For all six vignettes

77.5 (72.3;81.9)

For the three vignettes describing patients with acute low back pain

68.1 (61.8;73.8)

For the three vignettes describing patients with chronic low back pain

83.8 (78.8;87.7)

Uni-variable generalized mixed model (based on all six vignettes) on return to work

Adherence on the vignette (% (95% CI))

OR (95% CI)

Latent profile classification:

High biomedical class

93.3 (83.5;97.5)

7.6 (2.2;26.6)

Mid biomedical class

77.0 (70.8;82.3)

1.8 (0.8;4.0)

Low biomedical class (reference category)

64.9 (47.6;79.1)

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