Peter C Emary, Kent J Stuber, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Mark Oremus, Paul S Nolet, Jennifer V Nash, Craig A Bauman, Carla Ciraco, Rachel J Couban, Jason W Busse
BACKGROUND: Mixed methods designs are increasingly used in health care research to enrich findings. However, little is known about the frequency of use of this methodology in chiropractic research, or the quality of reporting among chiropractic studies using mixed methods. OBJECTIVE: To quantify the use and quality of mixed methods in chiropractic research, and explore the association of study characteristics (e.g., authorship, expertise, journal impact factor, country and year of publication) with reporting quality...
September 15, 2021: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies