This survey was done in the Calgary Health Region, focusing on practitioners in Calgary, Canmore, Kananaskis, Banff, and Lake Louise.
The purpose with this first survey was to learn about where CAM manual therapy practitioners hear about or gain information relevant to their community, and whether practitioners share such information or encourage participation in projects relevant to their community. Thus, the questions on this one-page survey focused on:
- urban or rural practice settings
- preference for mail-in or on-line surveys
- routes for hearing about or seeing advertising for surveys and research
The results of this survey are being used to effectively contact CAM manual therapy practitioners for the Alberta-wide survey, which will focus on the actual practices of practitioners.
My thanks: this survey has been supported by a research grant from IN-CAM.
These surveys are part of the PhD thesis work of Antony Porcino
Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary
This survey was approved by the Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board of the University of Calgary.
All responses to the survey were anonymous.
No personal information was collected.
Results are expressed in aggregate form only (e.g., %).
