Factors Affecting Definitions of and Approaches to Integrative Medicine: A Mixed Methods Study Examining China’s Integrative Medicine Development

Table 1

Characteristics of the interview sample ().

	Number of experts	Percent
Age, mean = 67.3, std. dev. = 13.7
<50 years	11	15.1
50–65 years	21	28.8
>65 years	41	56.1
Gender
Male	62	84.9
Female	11	15.1
Type of practice
Pioneers	33	45.2
Colleagues and leaders	40	54.8
Original education
Western medicine	47	64.4
Chinese medicine	24	32.9
Nonmedicine	2	2.7
Type of expert
Clinicians	56	76.7
Nonclinicians	17	23.3
Working environment
Western medicine	24	32.9
Chinese medicine	49	67.1