JARVIS

A Programmed Instruction Course about Chiropractic for Health Educators

In the early 1970s, William T. Jarvis, who was a graduate student at the University of Oregon, noted that health educators and their students has very little exposure to critical information about chiropractic. The article below describes his concern and how he developed an instructional course that became the basis of his doctoral dissertation. The dissertation itself—An Analysis of the Effect of a Programmed Course about Chiropractic on the Knowledge and Attitudes of Prospective Health Education Teachers at the University of Oregon—contains additional details about his research. In the 45+ years since the dissertation was published, chiropractic has made some improvements, but the problems Jarvis described are still widespread and health education textbooks still tend to ignore them. The field of health education would benefit …