Funding Source: Internal
Principal Investigator: Dennis Marchiori, DC, Ph.D.
Description: Palmer College of Chiropractic, in collaboration with Gallup, commissioned the first-ever nationally representative annual survey of adults in the U.S. to measure perceptions of and experiences with chiropractic. Previous research identified several barriers to widespread chiropractic use, including limited demographics of chiropractic users; unclear, narrow or nonexistent insurance coverage; public and physician perceptions of chiropractic; and inconsistent methods of measuring chiropractic use. The Palmer-Gallup study provides the first opportunity to test these assumptions and discover what U.S. adults think about chiropractic.
Presentation:
Goertz C, Long C, English C, Meeker W, Marchiori D. Patient-Reported Medical Physician Treatment Recommendations Among a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults with Low Back Pain. WFC-ECU Congress, March 20-23, 2019, Berlin, Germany. (Platform)
Meeker W, Marchiori D, Goertz C, Long C, English C. Patients’ Experiences with Chiropractors, Physical Therapists, and Medical Doctors from the 2018 Palmer/Gallup Survey of 5,377 US Adults. WFC-ECU Congress, March 20-23, 2019, Berlin, Germany. (Platform)
Publications:
Weeks WB, Goertz CM, Meeker WC, Marchiori DM. Public Perceptions of Doctors of Chiropractic: Results of a National Survey and Examination of Variation According to Respondents’ Likelihood to Use Chiropractic, Experience With Chiropractic, and Chiropractic Supply in Local Health Care Markets. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2015; 38(8): 533-544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmpt.2015.08.001
Weeks WB, Goertz CM, Long CR, Meeker WC, Marchiori DM. Association Among Opioid Use, Treatment Preferences, and Perceptions of Physician Treatment Recommendations in Patients With Neck and Back Pain. J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2018;41(3):175-180. doi:10.1016/j.jmpt.2017.12.003
Goertz CM, Long CR, English C, Meeker WC, Marchiori DM. Patient-Reported Physician Treatment Recommendations and Compliance Among U.S. Adults with Low Back Pain. J Altern Complement Med. 2021;27(S1):S99-S105. doi:10.1089/acm.2020.0392
