Research Article
Prevalence, Purposes, and Perceived Effectiveness of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in a Hypertension Population: A Questionnaire Survey
Table 1
Characteristics of respondents: users and nonusers of CAM.
| | Characteristics | Total (100%) | CAM users (74.2%) | Non-CAM users (25.8%) | value |
| | Mean age, years (SD) | 62.9 (9.8) | 63.0 (9.7) | 62.9 (9.9) | 0.997 | | Gender | | | | 0.027* | | Males | 90 (28.3) | 59 (25.0) | 31 (37.8) | | | Females | 228 (71.7) | 177 (75.0) | 51 (62.2) | | | Marital status | | | | 0.630 | | Single | 6 (1.9) | 4 (1.7) | 2 (2.4) | | | Married/common law | 281 (88.4) | 207 (87.7) | 74 (90.2) | | | Widowed/separated/divorced | 31 (9.7) | 25 (10.6) | 6 (7.3) | | | Level of education | | | | 0.296 | | ≤6 years | 222 (69.8) | 169 (71.6) | 53 (64.6) | | | >6 years | 96 (30.2) | 67 (28.4) | 29 (35.4) | | | Annual family income | | | | 0.600 | | <50,000 yuan | 309 (97.2) | 230 (97.5) | 79 (96.3) | | | ≥50,000 yuan | 9 (2.8) | 6 (2.5) | 3 (3.7) | | | Self-rated health | | | | 0.498 | | Very good | 8 (2.5) | 8 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) | | | Good | 71 (22.3) | 45 (19.1) | 26 (31.7) | | | Fair | 153 (48.1) | 118 (50.0) | 35 (42.7) | | | Poor | 78 (24.5) | 59 (25.0) | 19 (23.2) | | | Very poor | 7 (2.2) | 5 (2.1) | 2 (2.4) | | | Mean duration of hypertension diagnosis, years (SD) | 8.2 (7.1) | 8.2 (7.3) | 8.2 (6.5) | 0.364 |
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