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Assessing the attitudes, knowledge and perspectives of medical students to chiropractic
Jessica J Wong1, Luciano Di Loreto, Alim Kara
1Department of Graduate Studies, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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.
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