The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Is Associated with Reduced Health-Related Quality of Life

Table 3

Differences in sociodemographic, disease related, and self-efficacy variables between CAM users and non-CAM users ().

	CAM users ()	Non-CAM users ()	value
Gender
Female (%)	62 (60)	54 (41)	0.005
Age
Median (range) in years	40 (20–79)	43 (20–78)	0.440
Education level
>12 years (%)	56 (54)	56 (43)	0.091
Work status
Working/student (%)	68 (65)	88 (67)	0.773
Marital status
Married or cohabitant (%)	70 (67)	92 (70)	0.631
Current smoking
Yes (%)	19 (18)	28 (21)	0.555
Disease duration
Median (range) in years	8.0 (0.1–36)	8 (0.5–45)	0.732
Active   %	78 (75)	26 (25)	0.104
Self-efficacy
Mean (SD)	29.34 (5.48)	29.79 (6.16)	0.551

CAM: complementary and alternative medicine.
disease: simple clinical colitis activity index ≥3 in UC or Harvey-Bradshaw activity index >4 in CD.
Continuous variables were estimated by the Mann–Whitney test, and chi-squared test was used to compare proportions.