Prevalence, Purposes, and Perceived Effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in a Hypertension Population: A Questionnaire Survey

Table 3

Purposes for which CAM was used^△.

	Purposes of using CAM					𝑃 value
	General health	Hypertension treatment	Treatment of other medical conditions	Mood improvement	Other
Alternative medical systems (𝑛, %)						0.002*
Traditional Chinese medicine	7 (3.1)	16 (32.7)	50 (17.4)	2 (2.2)	1 (9.1)
Acupuncture	5 (2.2)	0 (0.0)	22 (7.6)	2 (2.2)	0 (0.0)
Cupping	10 (4.4)	2 (4.1)	75 (26.0)	4 (4.3)	1 (9.1)
Mind-body medicine (𝑛, %)						<0.001*
Prayer	4 (1.7)	4 (8.2)	1 (0.3)	4 (4.3)	2 (18.2)
Relaxation	35 (15.3)	5 (10.2)	4 (1.4)	71 (76.3)	0 (0.0)
Ta chi	2 (0.9)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	1 (1.1)	0 (0.0)
Qigong	3 (1.3)	0 (0.0)	1 (0.3)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
Yangge	23 (10.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	10 (10.8)	0 (0.0)
Manipulative/body based (𝑛, %)						0.727
Spinal manipulation	3 (1.3)	0 (0.0)	2 (0.7)	1 (1.1)	0 (0.0)
Massage therapy	7 (3.1)	0 (0.0)	7 (2.4)	1 (1.1)	0 (0.0)
Natural products (𝑛, %)						<0.001*
Herbal medicine	4 (1.7)	14 (28.6)	39 (13.5)	0 (0.0)	2 (18.2)
Probiotics	12 (5.2)	0 (0.0)	1 (0.3)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
Omega 3s	1 (0.4)	2 (4.1)	1 (0.3)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
Fish oil	4 (1.7)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	2 (18.2)
Vitamin/dietary supplements (𝑛, %)						0.031*
Vitamin C	11 (4.8)	1 (2.0)	14 (4.9)	0 (0.0)	2 (18.2)
Vitamin B/B12	12 (5.2)	2 (4.1)	21 (7.3)	0 (0.0)	1 (9.1)
Multivitamins	7 (3.1)	0 (0.0)	3 (1.0)	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)
Calcium supplements	69 (30.1)	1 (2.0)	45 (15.6)	0 (0.0)	2 (18.2)
Other dietary supplements	10 (4.4)	2 (4.1)	2 (0.7)	1 (1.1)	0 (0.0)
Total (𝑛)	229	49	288	97	11

∗Statistical Significance of Difference 𝑃≤0.05.
△Multiple responses given.
A total of 674 CAM uses were reported by 236 CAM users.