Tomas de Melo, Golam Islam, Denina B D Simmons, Jean-Paul Desaulniers, Andrea E Kirkwood
An alternative method for monitoring and interpreting influenza A in communities using wastewater surveillance
Frontiers in public health
purpose study determine factors affect compliance various prescribed home therapies based reported feedback participants spine pain descriptive quantitative crosssectional survey purposive sampling method used recruit 121 participants neck back pain attending durban university technology chiropractic day clinic located kwazulunatal south africa data collected using selfadministered questionnaire descriptive statistics including frequencies percentages used summarize data odds ratios ors calculated participants presented chronic pain reporting average severity 6 10 little disability pain home therapy included stretches 922 heat therapy 491 ice therapy 388 almost twothirds 621 participants reported fully compliant prescribed home therapy 328 reported partial compliance main factors potentially affected compliance laziness forgetfulness participants reported depression less compliant 0181 chronic pain compliant 374 believed home therapy would alleviate pain also compliant 383 study found majority participants spine pain compliant prescribed chiropractic home treatment key factors potentially influenced compliance identified