Traditional and non-traditional treatments for autism spectrum disorder with seizures: an on-line survey

BMC Pediatrics

Table 1 Practitioners who regularly manages the child with ASD.

Practitioner	Overall	Controls	Seizures
Pediatrician	66%	59%	69% ^ns
Child Neurologist	49%	23%	60%^†
Doctor affiliated with Defeat Autism Now!	33%	29%	34%^ns
Psychiatrist	20%	20%	20% ^ns
Family practitioner	15%	14%	15% ^ns
General practitioner	16%	10%	18% ^ns
Adult Neurologist	11%	0%	15%^†
Holistic Medicine	10%	9%	10% ^ns
Integrative Medicine	5%	5%	5%^ns

‡p < = 0.001; †p < = 0.0001
For each practitioner listed, statistical comparisons were made between the individuals reported to have seizures and the individuals reported not to have seizures (control group). Superscript after the seizure percentage indicates whether the proportions are different between the two groups. There are 9 practitioners resulting in 9 comparisons. The Bonferroni correction results in an alpha of 0.05/9 = 0.0056, so we have set the alpha to p < = 0.001 to be conservative.

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