Journal article
Who consults chiropractors in Victoria, Australia?: Reasons for attending, general health and lifestyle habits of chiropractic patients
MJ Charity, HC Britt, BF Walker, JM Gunn, K Forsdike-Young, BI Polus, SD French
Chiropractic and Manual Therapies | BMC | Published : 2016
Abstract
Background: COAST (Chiropractic Observational and Analysis STudy) reported the clinical practices of chiropractors. The aims of this study were to: 1) describe the chiropractic patient demographic and health characteristics; 2) describe patient-stated reasons for visiting a chiropractor; 3) describe chiropractic patient lifestyle characteristics; 4) compare, where possible, chiropractic patient characteristics to the general Australian population. Methods: Fifty-two chiropractors in Victoria, Australia, provided information for up to 100 consecutive encounters. If patients attended more than once during the 100 encounters, only data from their first encounter were included in this study. Whe..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
COAST was funded by the Chiropractors Registration Board of Victoria and the Chiropractors Association of Australia. During the study conduct SDF was supported by a NHMRC Fellowship (APP567071). SDF is currently supported by a Professorship from the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation. The funding bodies provided general advice about the design of the project but had no role in the conduct of the study or in the decisions about publication of the results.