From: Estimating the accuracy of muscle response testing: two randomised-order blinded studies
MRT ACCURACY | |||||||||||
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(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | ||||||||
Practitioner profession | Practitioner practising status | Self-ranked MRT experise | TP reported guessing the paradigm? | ||||||||
Chiropractors | All others | Full Time | Part Time | Not Practising | 4 | 3 | 1 or 2 | Yes | No | ||
(n = 20) | c | (n = 26) | (n = 13) | (n = 7) | (n = 15) | (n = 19) | (n = 12) | (n = 21) | (n = 27) | ||
Experiment 1 | Mean | 0.670 | 0.642 | 0.663 | 0.682 | 0.569 | 0.682 | 0.666 | 0.600 | 0.661 | 0.649 |
95% CI | 0.611 - 0.729 | 0.593 - 0.691 | 0.612 - 0.715 | 0.618 - 0.746 | 0.465 - 0.673 | 0.617 - 0.747 | 0.605 - 0.728 | 0.528 - 0.672 | 0.591 - 0.730 | 0.610 - 0.688 | |
p-value | 0.45a | 0.13b | 0.35b | 0.38 | |||||||
Experiment 2 | Chiropractors | All other | Full Time | Part Time | Not Practising | 4 | 3 | 2 | Yes | No | |
(n = 14) | (n = 6) | (n = 14) | (n = 4) | (n = 2) | (n = 7) | (n = 10) | (n = 3) | (n = 6) | (n = 14) | ||
Mean | 0.607 | 0.563 | 0.561 | 0.706 | 0.600 | 0.611 | 0.590 | 0.567 | 0.621 | 0.582 | |
95% CI | 0.535 - 0.679 | 0.478 - 0.647 | 0.504 - 0.618 | 0.508 - 0.905 | 0.000 - 1.000 | 0.470 - 0.751 | 0.518 - 0.662 | 0.387 - 0.746 | 0.507 - 0.735 | 0.515 - 0.650 | |
p-value | 0.36 | 0.07 | 0.86 | 0.49 |