Chiropractic students' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to joining a professional association".

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Australia, about 1 in 3 chiropractors choose not to belong to either of the two professional associations and this is considerably lower compared to other health professional organisations in this country. The reasons for this remain unknown. We sought to explore possible reasons by asking chiropractic students their perceptions of barriers and facilitators to joining a professional association. However, we were unable to identify validated survey instruments that could be used to obtain information about reasons for joining health professional associations.

Aim

Therefore, the objectives of this study were to: 1) develop a survey instrument that captures information about what influences chiropractic students in joining professional association; and 2) identify

SUBMITTER: Innes SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6880539 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature