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Table 3 Responses to the item ‘In general, vaccinations have had a positive effect on global public health’ (survey question 5). The first column presents the proportion of respondents who answered ‘Strongly Disagree’ (SD) or ‘Disagree’ (D). The middle column presents the proportion of respondents who answered ‘Neutral’ (N). The third column presents the combination of respondents in the first and second columns (SD + D + N). See Discussion for interpretation of these proportions

From: Associations between demographics and clinical ideology, beliefs, and practice patterns: a secondary analysis of a survey of randomly sampled United States chiropractors

Chiropractic degree program of graduation

Proportion of respondents

Lower Limit

SD + D

N

Upper Limit

SD + D + N

Cleveland College of Chiropractic – Kansas City

35.7%

25.2%

60.8%

Cleveland College of Chiropractic – Los Angeles

27.1%

39.6%

66.7%

Life University

51.4%

21.2%

72.6%

Life University West

42.2%

22.2%

64.4%

Logan University

36.0%

21.9%

57.9%

National University of Health Sciences

24.0%

17.1%

41.1%

New York Chiropractic College

23.5%

27.2%

50.7%

Northwestern University of Health Sciences

34.5%

24.8%

59.3%

Palmer College of Chiropractic – Iowa

47.5%

22.7%

70.3%

Palmer College of Chiropractic – Florida

38.5%

17.9%

56.4%

Palmer College of Chiropractic – West

28.0%

19.4%

47.3%

Parker University

46.3%

28.1%

74.4%

Southern California University of Health Sciences

31.3%

20.5%

51.7%

Sherman College of Chiropractic

55.2%

16.4%

71.6%

Texas Chiropractic College

25.3%

24.1%

49.4%

University of Bridgeport

17.9%

28.2%

46.2%

University of Western States

28.4%

16.8%

45.2%

Average total response proportion

37.9%

22.6%

60.4%