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- Title
Assessing the attitudes, knowledge and perspectives of medical students to chiropractic.
- Authors
Wong, Jessica J.; Di Loreto, Luciano; Kara, Alim; Yu, Kavan; Mattia, Alicia; Soave, David; Weyman, Karen; Kopansky-Giles, Deborah
- Abstract
Objective: To assess second-year medical students' views on chiropractic. Methods: A three-step triangulation approach was designed, comprising a 53-item survey, nine key informant interviews and one focus group of 8 subjects. ANOVA was used to assess attitude-response survey totals over grouping variables. Constant comparison method and NVivo was used for thematic analysis. Results: 112 medical students completed the survey (50% response rate). Subjects reporting no previous chiropractic experience/exposure or interest in learning about chiropractic were significantly more attitude-negative towards chiropractic. Thematically, medical students viewed chiropractic as an increasingly evidence-based complementary therapy for low back/chronic pain, but based views on indirect sources. Within formal curriculum, they wanted to learn about clinical conditions and benefits/risks related to treatment, as greater understanding was needed for future patient referrals. Conclusion: The results highlight the importance of exposure to chiropractic within the formal medical curriculum to help foster future collaboration between these two professions.
- Subjects
CANADA; ANALYSIS of variance; CHIROPRACTIC; FOCUS groups; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL students; PROFESSIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SCALE analysis (Psychology); STATISTICS; STUDENT attitudes; DATA analysis; THEMATIC analysis; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, 2013, Vol 57, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0008-3194
- Publication type
Article