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Table 2 Pediatric training

From: Pediatric training and practice of Canadian chiropractic and naturopathic doctors: a 2004–2014 comparative study

 

Chiropractic Doctors (DC)

Naturopathic Doctors (ND)

DC vs. NDa

2004

2014

2004 vs. 2014a

2004

2014

2004 vs. 2014a

Amount of lecture-based training.

n (%)

None

5 (3)

7 (0.9)

p< .001

4 (3)

4 (2)

p= .002

2004: p = .23

2014: p< .001

Occasional

36 (21)

321 (43.3)

20 (13)

76 (32)

1 semester

75 (44)

29 (3.9)

79 (50)

106 (45.

1 year

19 (11)

385 (51.9)

20 (13)

45 (19)

Don’t recall

21 (12)

0 (0)

26 (17)

4 (2)

Rating of lecture-based training.b

n (%)

Very adequate

5 (3)

38 (7.1)

p = .33

5 (3)

13 (8)

p = .98

2004: p = .35

2014: p = .45

2

21 (13)

111 (20.6)

36 (23)

43 (27)

3

67 (41)

174 (32.3)

51 (33)

57 (36)

4

41 (25)

127 (23.6)

39 (25)

30 (19)

Not adequate

30 (18)

89 (16.5)

22 (14)

15 (9)

Amount of hands-on training.

n (%)

None

89 (52)

238 (49.2)

p = .31

33 (21)

36 (23)

p = .16

2004: p< .001

2014: p< .001

Minimal

64 (37)

161 (33.3)

106 (67)

93 (58)

Significant

7 (4)

41 (8.5)

8 (5)

20 (13)

Rating of hands-on training.

n (%)

Very adequate

5 (3)

23 (4.8)

p = .15

1 (1)

12 (8)

p = .086

2004: p = .042

2014: p = .174

2

12 (7)

52 (10.8)

15 (10)

16 (11)

3

26 (16)

88 (18.3)

42 (27)

36 (24)

4

34 (21)

124 (25.8)

45 (29)

48 (32)

Not adequate

82 (52)

193 (40.2)

51 (33)

36 (24)

Comfort level treating children.c

n (%)

Very comfortable

61 (36)

311 (62.4)

p< .001

45 (28)

72.6 (48)

p< .001

2004: p = .55

2014: p = .006

2

48 (28)

82.4 (16.5)

53 (33)

44.4 (30)

3

33 (19)

47.2 (9.5)

34 (21)

15.6 (10)

4

20 (12)

26.8 (5.4)

26 (16)

9.2 (6)

Not comfortable

9 (5)

30.2 (6.1)

4 (3)

7.6 (5)

  1. a: chi-squared tests. b: each 2014 adequacy value is an average of the diagnostic and treatment adequacy scores, to enable comparison with 2004. c: comfort by age category was only assessed in 2014; each 2014 comfort value is the average combined comfort scores for the 5 age categories, to enable comparison with 2004. Bold items are statistically significant