Research Article
Characteristics of Herbal Medicine Users and Adverse Events Experienced in South Korea: A Survey Study
Table 2
Basic characteristics of herbal medicines users and nonusers.
| Demographic characteristics | Users (, 61.1%) | Nonusers (, 38.9%) | value |
| Sex | | | | Men | 361 (52.1) | 230 (52.2) | 1.000 | Women | 332 (47.9) | 211 (47.8) | Age (years) | | | | 20–29 | 130 (18.8) | 79 (17.9) | 0.221 | 30–39 | 151 (21.8) | 86 (19.5) | 40–49 | 159 (22.9) | 118 (26.8) | 50–59 | 147 (21.2) | 106 (24.0) | 60–69 | 106 (15.3) | 52 (11.8) | Occupation | | | | Executives professionals | 146 (21.1) | 68 (15.4) | 0.229 | Office workers | 244 (35.2) | 148 (33.6) | Service sales workers | 45 (6.5) | 38 (8.6) | Agriculture, forestry, and fishery workers | 2 (0.3) | 2 (0.5) | Craft mechanical workers | 23 (3.3) | 18 (4.1) | Simple labourers | 7 (1.0) | 8 (1.8) | Self-employed, part-time employees, and freelancers | 15 (2.2) | 10 (2.3) | Students, housewives, and unemployed | 211 (30.4) | 149 (33.8) | Level of education | | | | Middle school | 6 (0.9) | 6 (1.3) | 0.172 | High school | 119 (17.2) | 99 (22.4) | College | 490 (70.7) | 294 (66.7) | Graduate school | 78 (11.3) | 42 (9.5) |
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All data are in (%). Chi-square test was performed.
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