Access to Chiropractic Care During the COVID-19 Healthcare Emergency in Spain

Real Centro Universitario Maria Cristina

Status: Completed

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain; Psychological Distress; Disability Physical

Treatments: Other: Chiropractic care (one visit); Other: Chiropractic care (more than one visit)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04573361

ChiroCOVID19

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a pragmatic controlled clinical trial taking place in the first phase of COVID-19 lockdown re-opening in Spain. Patients of 52 chiropractic clinics were invited to participate in a pseudo-random order (one out of every three contacted patients) as they were contacted to either schedule an appointment with their current chiropractor or not, depending on the clinic's and the patient's availability. Patients would receive chiropractic in-person care (one or more than one visits) or no care at all, for a two-week period. According to the care received, they were assigned to one of three groups (receiving no care, receiving care once, and more than once). Participants filled an online questionnaire with self-reported outcome-measures at the beginning of the two week period. A follow-up questionnaire was completed 14 days after.

Enrollment: 723 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chiropractic patients active when lockdown was declared, over the age of 14

Exclusion criteria

• new patients in the clinic, patients with no current pain at the time of the trial

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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723 participants in 3 patient groups

Group Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients having no access to chiropractic treatment during the trial

Group Chiropractic Care one session

Experimental group

Description:

Patients having access to in-person chiropractic treatment once during the trial

Treatment:

Other: Chiropractic care (one visit)

Group Chiropractic Care multiple sessions

Experimental group

Description:

Patients having access to in-person chiropractic treatment more than once during the trial

Treatment:

Other: Chiropractic care (more than one visit)