Access to Chiropractic Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Real Centro Universitario Maria Cristina

Status: Completed

Conditions: Access to Chiropractic Care Services

Treatments: Other: Chiropractic care

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04666779

CohortChiroCOVID19

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective comparative cohort trial taking place during the first year of the Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic in Spain. Chiropractic patients throughout Spain were invited to participate independently of the care received, including patients who had stopped visiting their chiropractors since the pandemic hit. The main exposure variable is the access to chiropractic care services, and the degree of this exposure during the months following initial lockdown phase in Spain. Participants will fill an online questionnaire with self-reported outcome-measures.

Enrollment: 399 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chiropractic patients with pain, active when lockdown was declared, over the age of 16

Exclusion criteria

• new patients in the clinic after the pandemic hit

Trial design

399 participants in 2 patient groups

No access

Description:

Group not accessing chiropractic care

Access to care

Description:

Group with access to care in a 6 months period. Differences in the degree of access, measured in ranges of numbers of visits, will be used as independent variable within this group.

Treatment:

Other: Chiropractic care