Table 4
Summary of studies included in the quantitative synthesis
Study reference number Country Participants Methods of data collection Methods of data analysis [71] United States (US) 343 Pregnant patients Questionnaires Descriptive statistics and the paired t test [53] Canada 69 Military personnel presenting for on-site chiropractic services Questionnaire Multivariable regression model [34] US 20 Patients with low back pain Questionnaires Student's t-test [44] Canada 6 Chiropractors licensed with the College of Chiropractors of British Columbia Questionnaire Descriptive statistics [72] US 20 Institutions provided a written copy of the Informed consent documents Retrieving Informed Consent (IC) documents IC were compared against a list of requirements [73] United Kingdom (UK) 509 Participants from four participating UK associations Telephone survey Pearson Chi-Square tests [74] Australia 153 Patients with chronic conditions Questionnaires Descriptive and summary statistics [75] US 1759 Adults in the United States population Questionnaire Descriptive and multivariate methods [76] US 66 Questionnaires were returned from new and established patients Questionnaire Not explicitly specified [54] US 400 Participants with chronic low back pain Questionnaire Path analysis [77] US 681 Patients randomized, 341 were assigned to the 2 chiropractic groups Questionnaires at baseline and 2 weeks of treatment Mixed linear modelling [55] US Same trial as in the study of Hertzman-Miller et al. [77] Questionnaires Multiple logistic and linear regression modelling [35] Australia 144 Patients seeing chiropractors with practices in diverse locations Questionnaires Not explicitly specified [36] Australia 9 Chiropractors and 173 patients participated Questionnaires Descriptive statistics [49] The Netherlands 89 Chiropractors, 207 patient–chiropractor working relationships Questionnaires A one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance) test [78] US 72 Chiropractors who worked in 61 chiropractic practices Questionnaire Regression analysis [55] Canada 2597 Patients participating in a collaborative study Questionnaires A multiple linear regression model [38] US A sample of 57 people, who made a total of 104 office visits between them (1) Audiotape of all clinical interaction of the chiropractor for 8 days (2) patient questionnaires pertaining to satisfaction with care (1) Data was content analysed using the modified Bales method of process analysis [69]. (2) descriptive statistics [79] UK 465 Practitioners of which 132 chiropractors (28%) Questionnaires Several multivariate analyses of variance (ANOVA) [52] US 541 New and returning chiropractic patients Questionnaires Multiple stepwise regression analysis [80] Sweden 30 Chiropractors and 336 patients from 17 private practices Questionnaires The Wilcoxon signed rank test [81] US 62 Chronic pain patients recruited from four chiropractic offices Questionnaires Series of multiple regression analyses [41] Canada 90 Participants were recruited from two private chiropractic clinics Questionnaire Descriptive statistics