Vollenweider Regina, Peterson Cynthia K, Humphreys B Kim
Department of Chiropractic Medicine, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Department of Chiropractic Medicine, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2017 Jul-Aug;40(6):434-440. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2017.03.004. Epub 2017 Jun 17.
A total of 75% of the chiropractic medicine students in the new program at the University of Zürich are women, which is in stark contrast to the traditional ratio of chiropractors in Switzerland, where 75% have been men. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare work behaviors between female and male chiropractors relating to workload, patient variety, and chiropractic treatment techniques.
This is a secondary analysis of data from the Swiss Job Analysis 2009 study. The design was an online survey to all practicing chiropractors in Switzerland that had a 70% response rate of 183 returned surveys. Differences between male and female chiropractors in the various categorical responses involving practice workload, characteristics and patient types were compared using the χ test.
Male chiropractors had significantly more years in practice (P = .0001), worked more hours per week (P = .0001), and saw more patients (P = .0001) and more new patients (P = .004) per week compared with female chiropractors. Female chiropractors spent significantly more time with patients during follow-up visits (P = .017). There were no significant differences in treatment techniques used or the types of patients seen between the sexes.
Because female chiropractors work fewer hours and see fewer patients per week, this may lead to a shortage of chiropractors in the future as the sex ratio within the profession slowly changes in Switzerland.
苏黎世大学新开设的整脊医学专业中，75%的学生为女性，这与瑞士整脊师的传统性别比例形成鲜明对比，瑞士传统上75%的整脊师为男性。因此，本研究的目的是比较男女整脊师在工作量、患者种类和整脊治疗技术方面的工作行为。
这是对2009年瑞士工作分析研究数据的二次分析。研究设计为对瑞士所有执业整脊师进行在线调查，共收到183份回复，回复率为70%。使用χ检验比较男女整脊师在涉及执业工作量、特征和患者类型的各种分类回答上的差异。
与女性整脊师相比，男性整脊师的执业年限显著更长（P = .0001），每周工作时间更多（P = .0001），每周接待的患者更多（P = .0001）以及新患者更多（P = .004）。女性整脊师在随访时与患者相处的时间显著更长（P = .017）。男女在使用的治疗技术或所接待患者的类型上没有显著差异。
由于女性整脊师每周工作时间更少且接待的患者更少，随着瑞士该行业性别比例的缓慢变化，这可能导致未来整脊师短缺。
