Table 3.
Characteristics of patient attitudes about and decisions to use chiropractic care
| Completed the baseline survey
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLBP (n=518) |
Both (n=1159) |
CNP (n=347) |
Total (n=2024) |
Dropped (n=444) |
|
| How successful do you think chiropractic will be in reducing your pain - Very or Extremely | 367 (71.3%) |
828 (71.9%) |
262 (75.9%) |
1457 (72.4%) |
– |
| How confident are you in recommending chiropractic to friend - Very or Extremely | 461 (90.0%) |
1079 (93.9%) |
317 (92.7%) |
1857 (92.7%) |
– |
| How important to your decision to use chiropractic for your pain was: | |||||
| Being referred by provider: Very/Extremely Important | 128 (25.5%) |
323 (28.6%) |
85 (25.1%) |
536 (27.2%) |
121 (27.9%) |
| Being referred by friends/family: Very/Extremely Important | 289 (56.9%) |
658 (57.8%) |
199 (58.0%) |
1146 (57.6%) |
232 (53.6%) |
| Getting affordable care: Very/Extremely Important | 391 (76.5%) |
890 (77.9%) |
271 (79.2%) |
1552 (77.8%) |
331 (76.6%) |
| Avoiding surgery: Very/Extremely Important | 421 (82.2%) |
966 (84.9%) |
279 (81.1%) |
1666 (83.6%) |
363 (83.4%) |
| Choosing complementary medicine first: Very/Extremely Importantb | 323 (63.2%) |
818 (71.6%) |
247 (72.4%) |
1388 (69.6%) |
314 (71.9%) |
| Previous good chiropractic results: Very/Extremely Importanta | 349 (68.6%) |
886 (78.2%) |
242 (71.2%) |
1477 (74.5%) |
332 (76.3%) |
| Trusting that chiro is best option: Very/Extremely Important | 412 (80.5%) |
965 (84.1%) |
294 (85.2%) |
1671 (83.3%) |
359 (82.7%) |
| Not getting good results from others: Very/Extremely Important | 301 (59.4%) |
700 (62.0%) |
207 (61.2%) |
1208 (61.2%) |
255 (59.0%) |
| Avoiding medications: Very/Extremely Importantc | 359 (70.1%) |
876 (76.6%) |
266 (77.3%) |
1501 (75.1%) |
321 (73.8%) |
| Convenience: Very/Extremely Important | 310 (60.5%) |
722 (63.1%) |
210 (61.2%) |
1242 (62.1%) |
271 (62.4%) |
| Having insurance: Very/Extremely Important | 326 (63.5%) |
768 (67.2%) |
230 (67.1%) |
1324 (66.2%) |
287 (65.8%) |
| For those with coverage: what would you do if chiropractic was no longer covered | |||||
| Continue as is | 109 (29.2%) |
227 (29.2%) |
68 (29.1%) |
404 (29.2%) |
87 (29.8%) |
| Go less often | 215 (57.6%) |
464 (59.7%) |
139 (59.4%) |
818 (59.1%) |
179 (61.3%) |
| Stop going | 40 (10.7%) |
68 (8.8%) |
19 (8.1%) |
127 (9.2%) |
21 (7.2%) |
| Find less expensive | 23 (6.2%) |
40 (5.1%) |
11 (4.7%) |
74 (5.3%) |
13 (4.5%) |
| Change my insurancec | 33 (8.8%) |
87 (11.2%) |
13 (5.6%) |
133 (9.6%) |
29 (9.9%) |
a
Values for three pain groups significantly different from each other at p<.001.
b
Values for three pain groups significantly different from each other at p<.01.
c
Values for three pain groups significantly different from each other at p<.05. There were no values for total baseline that were significantly different than for those who dropped before baseline at p<.05.
d
The rates of missing data for all variables in this table is less than 3%. See Table 1 for the total numbers in each group who had at least partial insurance coverage for chiropractic.