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

Table 4

Information source for CAM^△.

	Family/relatives	Friends/colleagues	Internet	Book or magazine	Radio or TV	Doctor	CAM user	Patients themselves
Alternative medical systems	54 (27.69)	8 (4.1)	1 (0.51)	0 (0.00)	1 (0.51)	48 (24.62)	2 (1.03)	81 (41.54)
Mind-body medicine	44 (27.50)	15 (9.38)	0 (0.00)	1 (0.63)	6 (3.75)	6 (3.75)	2 (1.25)	86 (53.75)
Manipulative/body based	7 (33.33)	1 (4.76)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	1 (4.76)	3 (14.29)	0 (0.00)	9 (42.86)
Natural products	20 (24.69)	2 (2.47)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	0 (0.00)	33 (40.74)	0 (0.00)	26 (32.10)
Vitamin/dietary supplements	71 (34.30)	13 (6.28)	1 (0.48)	1 (0.48)	7 (3.38)	57 (27.54)	3 (1.45)	54 (26.09)

△Multiple responses given.