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- Title
A Demographic and Epidemiological Study of a Mexican Chiropractic College Public Clinic.
- Authors
Martinez, Daniel A.; Rupert, Ronald L .
- Abstract
Introduction: The purpose of this study is to describe the patient population who visited a Mexican chiropractic college public clinic with respect to demographics and clinical characteristics. This study may also be used to provide an information base that can be used for future studies. Methods: This study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Parker College of Chiropractic and the Universidad Estatal del Valle de Ecatapec. This cross-sectional study used existing patient files for data collection. Five hundred patient files from May 2005 to May 2007 were selected at random from a pack of 2700. Information was collected for demographics (age, sex, marital status, and occupation), chief complaints (nature, duration, cause, visual analog score (VAS), and associated complaints), and previous care (physician previously attended and treatment plan). Results: The sample was comprised of 306 (61.2%) females. The mean of the patient's age was 43.4 years. Most (44.2%) of the patients were between the ages of 40 and 59 years. The most frequent areas of complaint were pain in the lumbar area (29.4%) and pain related to the extremities (27.6%). Most (59.0%) of both sexes and all age groups described their complaints as greater that 1 year. Trauma in 46.6% of cases was indicated as the initial cause. Twenty percent classified their pain as 8/10 according to the VAS. Most did not seek care initially. Conclusion: The primary patient is female, married, within the ages of 40-59, and does housework or office work. The patient most commonly presented with low back pain complicated by an extremity problem. The condition is usually chronic and initiated by trauma.
- Subjects
MEXICO; CHIROPRACTIC clinics; CHIROPRACTIC; MEDICAL schools; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ALTERNATIVE medicine
- Publication
Journal of Chiropractic Education (Association of Chiropractic Colleges), 2008, Vol 22, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
1042-5055
- Publication type
Article