Usage and Attitudes of Physicians in Japan Concerning Traditional Japanese Medicine (Kampo Medicine): A Descriptive Evaluation of a Representative Questionnaire-Based Survey

Table 3

Information and reason to have started Kampo treatment (plural answers).

Information resource	(𝑛=571)
Medical representatives	261 (45.7%)
Recommendation from other doctors	252 (44.1%)
Issues or articles of medical journal	201 (35.2%)
Academic meetings	185 (32.4%)
Request from patients	176 (30.8%)
Seminar by pharmaceutical company	123 (21.5%)
Hospital seminar	50 (8.8%)
Internet	43 (7.5%)
Others	16 (2.8%)
Incentive
More effective than Western medicine	324 (56.4%)
Request from patients	253 (44.3%)
Evidence reported in academic meeting	192 (33.6%)
Limitation of Western medicine	181 (31.7%)
Comprehensive therapy in Kampo	91 (15.9%)
Medical cost reduction	11 (1.9%)
Others	28 (4.9%)