ArticleThe Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association2015
Self-reported attitudes, skills and use of evidence-based practice among Canadian doctors of chiropractic: a national survey.
Article in The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
40 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Enhancing evidence-based chiropractic practice: bridging the knowledge-to-action gap for the needs of community-based chiropractors.The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association · 2025Article
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- Use of the Evidence-Based practice Attitude and utilization SurvEy to determine the use of evidence-based practice by chiropractic students.The Journal of chiropractic education · 2025Article
- Exploration of chiropractic students' motivation toward the incorporation of new evidence on chiropractic maintenance care: a mixed methods study.The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association · 2024Article
- Feasibility of a new clinical journal club implementation and its association with knowledge, attitudes, and application of evidence-based practice among chiropractic students and trainees: a before-and-after healthcare education improvement study.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2023Article
- Investigating attitudes, skills, and use of evidence-based practice among Norwegian chiropractors; a national cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Attitudes, skills and implementation of evidence-based practice: a national cross-sectional survey of licensed naprapaths in Sweden.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2023Article
- Self-reported attitudes, skills and use of evidence-based practice among Swiss chiropractors: a national survey.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2022Article
- Enablers and barriers to evidence implementation in complementary medicine: A systematic review.Integrative medicine research · 2022Review
- Intervention usage for the management of low back pain in a chiropractic teaching clinic.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2022Article
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- The development and evaluation of an online educational tool for the evidence-based management of neck pain by chiropractic teaching faculty.The Journal of chiropractic education · 2021Article
- Self-perceived evidence-based practice competencies: a survey of faculty and students at a chiropractic institution.The Journal of chiropractic education · 2021Article
- A national cross-sectional survey of the attitudes, skills and use of evidence-based practice amongst Spanish osteopaths.BMC health services research · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo identify Canadian chiropractors' attitudes, skills and use of evidence based practice (EBP), as well as their level of awareness of previously published chiropractic clinical practice guidelines (CPGs).
methods7,200 members of the Canadian Chiropractic Association were invited by e-mail to complete an online version of the Evidence Based practice Attitude & utilisation SurvEy (EBASE); a valid and reliable measure of participant attitudes, skills and use of EBP.
resultsQuestionnaires were completed by 554 respondents. Most respondents (>75%) held positive attitudes toward EBP. Over half indicated a high level of self-reported skills in EBP, and over 90% expressed an interest in improving these skills. A majority of respondents (65%) reported over half of their practice was based on evidence from clinical research, and only half (52%) agreed that chiropractic CPGs significantly impacted on their practice.
conclusionsWhile most Canadian chiropractors held positive attitudes towards EBP, believed EBP was useful, and were interested in improving their skills in EBP, many did not use research evidence or CPGs to guide clinical decision making. Our findings should be interpreted cautiously due to the low response rate.
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