Felicity L Bishop, Katherine Bradbury, Nur Nadiah Hj Jeludin, Yolanda Massey, George T Lewith
OBJECTIVES: To explore how patients choose individual osteopaths to consult; to test whether patients' preferences for osteopaths depend on gender, the osteopath's qualifications, and the cost of treatment; to explore patients' perspectives. DESIGN: An explanatory mixed methods design incorporating a quasi-experimental study administered by postal survey and a qualitative interview study. SETTING: One sample of patients at a private-sector complementary therapy clinic in the UK completed a survey; a second sample of patients recruited from osteopathy clinics took part in qualitative interviews...
February 2013: Complementary Therapies in Medicine