Medical Student Attitudes toward Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of respondents to the CAIMAQ^a.

	CAIMAQ population (n = 1770)	Total population of US medical students (n = 68 343)
What is your gender?
Answer options	Response percent (n = 1743)	Response percent [34] (n = 68 343)
Male (%)	42.7	49.9
Female (%)	57.3	50.1
Respondent age
Answer options	Response percent (n = 1745)	Response percent [35] (n = 16 875)
Mean	25.8 years	Mean age at matriculation: 23.7
Standard deviation	3.62
What is your ethnicity?
Answer options	Response percent (n = 1718)	Response percent [34] (n = 68 343)
Hispanic or Latino (%)	5.59	7.01
Not Hispanic or Latino (%)	94.4	91.6
Undetermined (%)		1.39
What is your race? (You many select multiple answers for this question)
Answer options	Response percent (n = 1714)	Response percent [34] (n = 68 343)
White (%)	74.5	68.9
Black or African American	3.4	8.02
Asian (%)	16.9	22.7
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (%)	0.2	0.3
American Indian or Alaskan Native (%)	0.6	1.2
Multiple races (%)	4.4	N/A

^aRespondents were US medical students in all years of medical school recruited from 64 of the 126 medical schools solicited. N/A for the total population data.