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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Manag Care. 2015 Jul 1;21(7):e414–e421.

Table 1.

Participant demographics and reported pain diagnoses

Total
sample
Respondents Used Chiro
Only
Used Acu
Only
Used both No Acu/chiro
use
p-value1
N=8264 N=6068 n=1579 n=677 n=1278 n=2534 N=6068
Female (%) 69 71 68 75 76 68 <.0001
Age (mean/sd) 61 ± 14 61 ± 13 59 ± 13 61 ± 14 58 ± 13 64 ± 13 <.0001
Caucasian (%) 93 94 95 94 94 94 0.6374
Self-reported diagnoses from survey (%)
Back 64 75 62 76 51 <.0001
Joint pain 57 57 56 57 57 0.9719
Arthritis 54 54 56 49 56 0.0018
Extremity 56 55 57 56 56 0.6739
Neck 38 47 36 53 26 <.0001
Muscle 31 32 31 41 25 <.0001
Headache 23 26 22 33 15 <.0001
Fibromyalgia 15 16 17 22 11 <.0001
Abdomen/pelvis 10 12 9 13 9 <.0001
Other 10 9 13 11 9 0.0190
1

two-tailed p-value for comparing four usage groups based on 1-way ANOVA (continuous data) or Pearson chi-square test (proportions)