Table 3.
COVID-19 patient education provided by chiropractors during the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 2061)
| Overall n (% Yes) |
Australia n (% Yes) |
Canada n (% Yes) |
Denmark n (% Yes) |
Hong Kong n (% Yes) |
UK n (% Yes) |
USA n (% Yes) |
Others n (% Yes) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provided COVID-19 public health information to patients (such as hand washing, social distancing, oral hygiene, mask use or similar) (n = 2049)* | ||||||||
| Yes | 1692 (82.6%) | 229 (82.4%) | 610 (84.8%) | 142 (92.8%) | 39 (56.5%) | 383 (82.4%) | 265 (79.6%) | 24 (75.0%) |
| Approach to providing public health information about COVID-19 to patients (n = 1692) | ||||||||
| During face-to-face consultations | 1319 (78.0%) | 185 (80.8%) | 471 (77.2%) | 94 (66.2%) | 29 (74.4%) | 298 (77.8%) | 228 (86.0%) | 14 (58.3%) |
| On patient phone calls* | 1088 (64.3%) | 123 (53.7%) | 399 (65.4%) | 94 (66.2%) | 27 (69.2%) | 281 (73.4%) | 153 (57.7%) | 11 (45.8%) |
| Brochures/posters in practice areas* | 1077 (63.7%) | 150 (65.5%) | 425 (69.7%) | 110 (77.5%) | 25 (64.1%) | 226 (59.0%) | 130 (49.1%) | 11 (45.8%) |
| Through patient emails/mail-out* | 872 (51.5%) | 107 (46.7%) | 356 (58.4%) | 25 (17.6%) | 16 (41.0%) | 249 (65.0%) | 108 (40.8%) | 13 (45.8%) |
| On the practice website* | 864 (51.1%) | 98 (42.8%) | 316 (51.8%) | 105 (73.9%) | 24 (61.5%) | 224 (58.5%) | 91 (34.3%) | 6 (25.0%) |
| Social media posts* | 744 (44.0%) | 100 (43.7%) | 253 (41.5%) | 81 (57.0%) | 15 (38.5%) | 187 (48.8%) | 98 (37.0%) | 10 (41.7%) |
| Patient text-messages* | 536 (31.7%) | 93 (40.6%) | 119 (19.5%) | 69 (48.6%) | 19 (48.7%) | 158 (41.3%) | 70 (26.4%) | 8 (33.3%) |
| During patient teleconferencing/webinar* | 252 (14.9%) | 14 (6.1%) | 59 (23.4%) | 13 (5.2%) | 18 (46.2%) | 95 (24.8%) | 50 (18.9%) | 3 (12.5%) |
| Most trusted resource for COVID-19 public health information (n = 2022) | ||||||||
| Chiropractic associations/organisations | 597 (29.5%) | 88 (32.2%) | 171 (23.8%) | 26 (17.1%) | 36 (52.2%) | 215 (47.1%) | 56 (17.4%) | 5 (15.5%) |
| Chiropractic regulatory board | 302 (14.9%) | 21 (7.7%) | 205 (23.8%) | 1 (0.7%) | 1 (1.4%) | 54 (11.8%) | 20 (6.2%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Government reports/website | 846 (41.8%) | 131 (48.0%) | 287 (40.0%) | 118 (77.6%) | 23 (33.3%) | 135 (29.6%) | 136 (42.2%) | 16 (50.0%) |
| World Health Organisation | 75 (3.7%) | 12 (4.4%) | 14 (1.9%) | 1 (0.7%) | 7 (10.1%) | 15 (3.3%) | 22 (6.8%) | 4 (12.5%) |
| Search/reviewing COVID-19 research myself | 160 (7.9%) | 16 (5.9%) | 32 (4.5%) | 3 (2.0%) | 1 (1.4%) | 30 (6.6%) | 76 (23.6%) | 2 (6.3%) |
| Preferred commentators (media/social media) | 13 (0.6%) | 1 (0.4%) | 3 (0.4%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.4%) | 7 (2.2%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| TV/internet/radio/Newspaper news reports | 18 (0.9%) | 4 (1.5%) | 1 (0.1%) | 3 (2.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.4%) | 4 (1.2%) | 4 (12.5%) |
| Family/friend/another chiropractor | 11 (0.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 5 (0.7%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1 (1.4%) | 3 (0.7%) | 1 (0.3%) | 1 (3.1%) |
Some items with missing data ranging from 1 to 11 respondents, *P < 0.001