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Table 7 Low back pain guidelines adherence to treatment 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

64.5 (58.7;69.9)

For the three vignettes describing patients with acute low back pain

55.9 (50.5;61.1)

For the three vignettes describing patients with chronic low back pain

73.4 (66.7;79.2)

Uni-variable generalized mixed model (based on all six vignettes) on treatment

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

OR (95% CI)

Latent profile classification:

High biomedical class

48.6 (38.9;73.7)

0.7 (0.3;1.9)

Mid biomedical class

65.9 (58.9;73.9)

1.0 (0.5;2.1)

Low biomedical class (reference category)

66.0 (27.0;79.4)

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