Differences between Male and Female Consumers of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in a National US Population: A Secondary Analysis of 2012 NIHS Data

Table 1

Weighted sociodemographic characteristics of non-CAM users and CAM users and male and female CAM users.

	Non-CAM user ()%	CAM user ()%	value	CAM users		value
				Male ()%	Female ()%
Age, mean (95% CI)	46.5 (46.2, 46.8)	47.0 (46.5, 47.7)	0.070	47.3 (46.7, 47.9)	46.7 (46.2, 47.2)	0.174
Sex			<0.001
Male	51.2	40.9
Female	48.8	59.1
Region of USA ( = 34,525)			<0.001			0.22
Northeast	18.7	17.0		15.9	17.7
Midwest	21.5	25.6		25.3	25.8
South	39.7	28.8		29.3	28.5
West	20.1	28.6		29.6	28.0
Race/ethnicity ( = 34,525)			<0.001			0.93
Hispanic	17.2	9.5		9.5	9.4
Non-Hispanic White	62.8	77.4		77.4	77.4
Non-Hispanic Black	14.0	6.8		6.9	6.8
Non-Hispanic Asian	5.2	5.5		5.6	5.5
Non-Hispanic Other	0.8	0.8		0.7	0.8
Education			<0.001			0.001
Less than high school	20.6	8.3		9.8	7.3
High school graduate and some degree	56.3	50.9		50.1	51.5
Bachelor degree	15.7	24.7		23.2	25.7
Master degree and higher	7.4	16.1		16.9	15.5
Personal earning in the past year (US$)			<0.001			<0.001
<$10,000	8.1	8.2		6.7	9.2
$10,000–$19,999	9.3	8.1		6.6	9.2
$20,000–$34,999	11.8	12.6		11.9	13.1
$35,000–$54,999	11.0	14.0		14.9	13.3
$55,000–$74,999	5.3	8.9		10.4	7.9
$75,000+	6.7	12.1		18.6	7.6
Refused to report or do not know	11.4	9.0		9.1	8.9
Did not work in the past year	36.4	27.1		21.7	30.9
Marital status/relationship			<0.001			<0.001
Married or living with a partner	58.6	64.4		68.3	61.6
Divorced or separated	11.2	11.5		9.6	12.8
Widowed	6.5	4.9		1.9	6.9
Never married	23.6	19.3		20.1	18.8
Family spending on medical care			<0.001			0.12
0	12.9	7.0		7.6	6.6
$1–499	35.9	29.2		28.0	30.0
$500–1999	30.1	34.3		34.5	34.2
$2000–2999	9.7	11.8		12.9	11.1
$3000–4999	5.6	9.1		8.7	9.4
$5000+	5.8	8.6		8.3	8.8