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Table 5 Low back pain guidelines adherence to advice on return to work by chiropractors in the vignettes: result of uni-variable logistic mixed model using groups by latent profile analysis based on the PABS.PT score

From: Is the use of diagnostic imaging and the self-reported clinical management of low back pain patients influenced by the attitudes and beliefs of chiropractors? A survey of chiropractors in the Netherlands and Belgium

Overall adherence:

Low back pain guideline adherence in the vignette (% (95% CI))

For all six vignettes

59.4 (55.2;63.4)

For the three vignettes describing patients with acute low back pain

39.4 (34.6;44.4)

For the three vignettes describing patients with chronic low back pain

81.6. (76.9;85.4)

Uni-variable generalized mixed model (based on all six vignettes) on return to work

Adherence on the vignette (% (95% CI))

OR (95% CI)

Latent profile classification:

High biomedical class

81.0 (70.7;88.3)

4.4 (2.1;9.1)

Mid biomedical class

59.3 (54.5;64.0)

1.5 (0.9;2.4)

Low biomedical class (reference category)

49.2 (38.5;60.0)

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