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Identifying sports chiropractic global research priorities: an international Delphi study of sports chiropractors
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol.9(4), e001755
2023
PMID: 38116239
Abstract
Objectives: Developing a research agenda is one method to facilitate broad research planning and prioritise research within a discipline. Despite profession-specific agendas, none have specifically addressed the research needs of the specialty of sports chiropractic. This study determined consensus on research priorities to inform a global sports chiropractic research agenda.
Methods: A Delphi consensus methodology was used to integrate expert opinions. Clinicians, academics and leaders from the international sports chiropractic specialty were recruited using purposive sampling to participate in (1) a Delphi panel involving three voting rounds to determine consensus on research priorities and (2) a priority importance ranking of the items that reached consensus.
Results: We identified and contacted 141 participants, with response rates for rounds 1, 2 and 3, of 44%, 31% and 34%, respectively. From the original 149 research priorities, 66 reached consensus in round 1, 63 in round 2 and 45 items in round 3. Research priorities reaching consensus were collapsed by removing redundancies, and priority ranking identified 20 research priorities, 11 related to collaboration and 6 to research themes.
Conclusions: The top-ranked items for research priorities, research themes and collaborations included the effects of interventions on performance, recovery and return to play; clinical research in sport; and collaborations with researchers in chiropractic educational institutions, respectively.
Implications: The prioritisation of research items can be evaluated by key stakeholders (including athletes) and implemented to develop the first international research agenda for sports chiropractic.
Details
- Title
- Identifying sports chiropractic global research priorities: an international Delphi study of sports chiropractors
- Authors/Creators
- Melissa Belchos - Centre for Disability Prevention and RehabilitationAlexander D Lee - Canadian Memorial Chiropractic CollegeKatie de Luca - Chiropractic, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity, Rockhampton, Brisbane, AustraliaStephen M Perle - Health, Engineering and Education Exercise Science, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, AustraliaCorrie Myburgh - University of Southern DenmarkSilvano Mior - Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
- Publication Details
- BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, Vol.9(4), e001755
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Identifiers
- 991005623668907891
- Copyright
- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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