|
Informed their doctor about their HDS use
| | |
|
Yes
|
53
|
28.0
|
|
No
|
136
|
72.0
|
|
Reasons for not reporting HDS use (n=144)*
| | |
|
Health care providers don’t ask
|
66
|
45.8
|
|
Patients worried that their doctor will disapprove of HDS use
|
22
|
15.3
|
|
Short-term or occasional use
|
19
|
13.2
|
|
No need to inform their practitioner
|
18
|
12.5
|
|
Didn’t see their doctor during the period of HDS use
|
8
|
5.5
|
|
Just start using HDS and no opportunity
|
4
|
2.8
|
|
Stopping or planning to stop using HDS
|
3
|
2.1
|
|
Don’t want to tell them
|
2
|
1.4
|
|
HDS are safe
|
1
|
0.7
|
|
Doesn’t influence their disease (s)
|
1
|
0.7
|
