Back pain and associated healthcare seeking behaviour in nurses: A survey

Differences in healthcare seeking between hospital samples serve to highlight the issue of treatment costs. While both samples felt cost to be the main barrier to seeking chiropractic care, nurses at hospital 1 were seeking such care significantly more than nurses at hospital 2, and this may be explained in part by the presence of a chiropractic college near hospital 1 offering reduced price care. Healthcare seeking differences were not associated with any differences in sick leave rates between hospital samples. It was not possible to determine the effect of healthcare practitioner choice on return-to-work rates.