The interview will be undertaken by one of the investigators who is a registered physiotherapist with post-graduate qualifications in manual therapy and 28 years of clinical experience.
She has documented facts that I myself consider fundamental, in particular the fact that working women account for the dominant share of employment in the processing industry, where the majority of jobs require fewer qualifications, are manual and are badly paid.
Treatment will be administered by experienced physiotherapists with an international qualification for manual therapy (IFOMPT standard).
The target is that this qualification coincides with the manual list.
Participants randomised to the intervention group attended a weekly 90-minute yoga class taught by an experienced and accredited yoga teacher with qualifications in yoga therapy and Manual Lymphatic Drainage.
*n varies due to missing data 61% of the CAM using GPs indicated to possess a special qualification for CAM with acupuncture being the most common qualification followed by naturopathy and manual medicine.
For demographic features, a high level of occupation referred to a job position demanding complex skills, planning, judgment, and higher qualification (eg, professional or managerial posts), whereas a low level one referred to a job position demanding simple skills, manual work, and lesser qualifications.
Additional confounders were included such as socioeconomic class (professional and managerial, intermediate, and routine and manual), level of educational qualifications gained (none beyond age 14, O level, A level and degree level).
Self-harm was more likely among those with higher depressive symptoms and lower educational qualifications, and those whose mother was in a manual social class and had suffered from depression.
All had gained at least one post-graduate qualification in musculoskeletal physiotherapy which included training in manual therapy procedures for the spine, between 1983 to 2000 (mean years since graduation 8.7, range 2 to 19).
Almost all of the ten Mosaic types with the highest smoking prevalence are described as typically having few qualifications, and the majority are either unemployed or have manual occupations.
