Chiropractic Doctors (DC) | Naturopathic Doctors (ND) | DC vs. NDa | ||||||
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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) |