The DBRIC is a joint venture between the Netherlands Chiropractors’ Association (NCA) and the Belgian Chiropractors’ Union (BCU), and funded primarily by the members of the two associations.
This research foundation funds and facilitates research of relevance to patients and the chiropractic profession in Belgium and the Netherlands.
All research and education funded by DBRIC aim to benefit the public in general, and patients in particular, with emphasis on neuromusculoskeletal conditions.
Research in the field of Chiropractic
DBRIC is funded by the chiropractic profession in the Netherlands and Belgium; therefore, projects designed to result in a PhD or projects designed to enhance the recognition of chiropractic will receive first priority. Multidisciplinary projects initiated by chiropractors will be welcomed too.
For further information, see “Key documents”.
Research Grant Application Form:
Deadline 15th of October
Educational Grants Application Form:
Deadline 15th of May and 15th of December
Projects
Current Research Projects
- Annemarie de Zoete, Michiel de Boer, Raymond Ostelo, Sidney Rubinstein: “Would the results from our earlier IPD meta-analysis on spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low back pain have been different if we had conducted a responder analysis?”
- Lobke de La Ruelle, Sidney Rubinstein, Annemarie de Zoete, Raymond Ostelo: “What aspects of chiropractic care do patients with low-back pain consider worthwhile? A discrete choice experiment.”
- Esther Maas, Johanna van Dongen, Alan Jenks, Brenda van der Vossen and Sidney Rubinstein: “Prediction of high-cost trajectories in a cohort of older adults with low back pain seeking chiropractic care – secondary analysis of the BACE-C study”
- Esther Maas, Prof. Raymond Ostelo, Prof. Sidney Rubinstein, Annemarie de Zoete, and Brenda van der Vossen: “Improving care for people with low back pain by studying the causal mechanisms between pain severity and physical functioning over time, and the effect on health outcomes – Secondary analysis of BACE-C study.”
- Prof. Raymond Ostelo, Prof. Sidney Rubinstein, Annemarie de Zoete, Tiziano Innocenti, Casper Nim, Prof. Jan Hartvigsen en Justine Tilborghs: “How does the risk of bias influence the effect sizes of spinal manipulative therapy in randomised controlled trials of chronic low back pain? A meta-epidemiological study.”
Current Educational Grants recipients
- Brenda van der Vossen: Epidemiology course.
- Emma Gragger: Course in qualitative research.
- Monique van der Mark: Course in qualitative research.
- Renske Versloot: introduction to statistics.
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