Table 1 Distribution of practitioner characteristics across frequency of practitioner treating patients with migraine
Characteristic | Treat patients with migraine | Â | |
|---|---|---|---|
Never/rarely/ sometimes (n = 879) | Often (n = 990) | p-value | |
Age in years (mean ± sd) | 41.3 ± 11.7 | 43.1 ± 12.3 | 0.001 |
Gender | |||
 male n (%) | 531 (60.7) | 624 (63.4) | 0.237 |
 female n (%) | 344 (39.3) | 361 (36.6) | |
Qualification n (%) | |||
 Diploma n (%) | 20 (2.3) | 21 (2.1) | 0.718 |
 Advanced diploma n (%) | 6 (0.7) | 8 (0.8) | |
 Bachelor n (%) | 304 (34.9) | 344 (35.0) | |
 Doctor of Chiropractic n (%) | 245 (28.1) | 296 (30.1) | |
 Masters n (%) | 288 (33.0) | 308 (31.4) | |
 PhD n (%) | 9 (1.0) | 5 (0.5) | |
Years in practice (mean ± sd) | 14.9 ± 11.0 | 16.8 ± 11.6 | < 0.001 |
Patient care hours/week (mean ± sd) | 26.0 ± 11.2 | 28.0 ± 10.4 | < 0.001 |
Patient visits/week (mean ± sd) | 78.1 ± 53.8 | 95.5 ± 59.2 | < 0.001 |