Integration of Herbal Medicine in Primary Care in Israel: A Jewish-Arab Cross-Cultural Perspective
Table 1
Respondents’ demographic characteristics.
Characteristic
Number of respondents who reported their religion (n = 3713)
Number of Arab respondents (n = 2184)
Number of Jewish respondents (n = 1529)a
Muslims (n = 1459)
Christians (n = 577)
Druze (n = 148)
Israeli-born (n = 742)
Ashkenazi immigrants (n = 353)
Sephardic immigrants (n = 215)
USSR immigrants (n = 132)
Mean age in years ± SD (median)
Arabs: 38.8 ± 13.3 (37)
Jews: 50.9 ± 17.3 (52)
P < .0001
Muslims
Christians
Druze
Israeli-born
“Ashkenazi”
“Sephardic”
“USSR”
37.7 ± 12.4 (36)
41.1 ± 15.4 (38)
34.7 ± 13.4 (33)
41.7 ± 14.5 (40)
64 ± 13.8 (66)
61.3 ± 12.1 (61)
49.5 ± 17.7 (50)
P < .0001 (except between Muslims and Druze)
P < .0001 (except between Ashkenazi and Sephardic)
Sex, male : female (%)
Arabs:
Jews:
738 : 1238 (37.3 : 62.7)
548 : 883 (38.3 : 61.7)
Non-significant difference
Muslims
Christians
Druze
Israeli-born
Ashkenazi
Sephardic
USSR
551 : 891
216 : 357
45 : 100
293 : 435
130 : 216
81 : 132
36 : 92
(38.2 : 61.8)
(37.7 : 62.3)
(31 : 69)
(40.2 : 59.8)
(37.6 : 62.4)
(38 : 62)
(28.1 : 71.9)
Non-significant difference
Non-significant difference except Israeli-born versus USSR immigrant
groups P = .0103
Education:
Arabs
Jews
1. Elementary school
317 (16.9%)
P = .0001
97 (7.4%)
2. High school
1037 (55.2%)
P = .0015
651 (49.5%)
3. Academic
523 (27.9%)
P = .0001
567 (43.1%)
Muslims
Christians
Druze
Israeli-born
“Ashkenazi”
“Sephardic”
“USSR”
240 (17.7%)
88 (16.3%)
23 (17.4%)
22 (3.3%)
37 (11.8%)
38 (19.5%)
0
783 (57.8%)
275 (50.8%)
68 (51.5%)
348 (52.3%)
143 (45.7%)
108 (55.4%)
52 (41.3%)
331 (24.4%)
178 (32.9%)
41 (31.1%)
295 (44.4%)
133 (42.5%)
49 (25.1%)
74 (58.7%)
Muslims compared with Christians
Israeli-born compared with other groups
P = .0056 High school
P < .0001 Elementary school
P = .0002 Academic studies
Sephardic compared to other groups
P < .0001 Academic studies
SD: standard deviation. Data analysis was performed by Pearson's chi-square test and Fisher's exact test.
aOut of 1529 Jewish respondents, 1442 reported detailed demographic data.
