An observational study in Covid19, sponsored by Karolinska Institutet. Completed at 1 site in Sweden. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 65 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-10-03.
Sponsored by Karolinska Institutet · Observational
This observational study will follow the chiropractors and naprapaths in Sweden to study how work environment, health, and economy is changing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
All manual therapists that are members of a professional organization in Sweden will be invited to participate. The study started in November 2020 with follow-ups planned after 3,6 and 12 months.
All data-collection is taking place with digital questionnaires.
There are three main areas of interest:
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This study's enrollment of 703 is above the median of 260 across 3,188 observational studies indexed under COVID-19.
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Manual therapists, clinically active in Sweden
Exclusion Criteria:
Work environment
Changes in routines according to the pandemic This includes systematic work environment routines, cleaning, wearing protective gear, not treating patients belonging to certain risk categories, changing appointment scheduling etc. There are no validated questionnaires to examine these concepts, as we have not experienced a pandemic in modern times, so the questions are constructed by the research group.
Time frame: 12 months
Physical Health -Pain
Physical pain using the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire
Time frame: 12 months
Psychological Health -depression
Depression assessed with DASS-21
Time frame: 12 months
Psychological Health -sleep
Sleep will be assessed using Karolinska Sleep Questionnaire.
Time frame: 12 months
Economy
Changes in company turnover. For clinic owners, this measure is assessing income and cost, estimated by clinic owners, There are no validated questionnaires to examine these concepts, as we have not experienced a pandemic in modern times, so the questions are constructed by the research group.
Time frame: 12 months
This study is completed, as verified in Oct 2023. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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