Table 1 Demographics of the respondents and the reliability of TKM and Western medicine
Characteristics | Total no. | TKM reliability (%) | Western medicine reliability (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trust* | Neutral | Distrust† | P-value | Trust | Neutral | Distrust | P-value | ||
Gender | 0.515 | 0.373 | |||||||
(Average) | (66.6) | (29.1) | (4.3) | (73.4) | (23.0) | (3.6) | |||
Male | 499 | 66.5 | 28.5 | 5.0 | 75.2 | 21.8 | 3.0 | ||
Female | 501 | 66.7 | 29.7 | 3.6 | 71.7 | 24.2 | 4.2 | ||
Age (yrs) | 0.029 | 0.419 | |||||||
20-29 | 207 | 61.8 | 30.9 | 7.2 | 69.6 | 27.1 | 3.4 | ||
30-39 | 237 | 63.3 | 33.8 | 3.0 | 72.2 | 24.5 | 3.4 | ||
40-49 | 231 | 66.7 | 28.6 | 4.8 | 74.0 | 20.3 | 5.6 | ||
50-59 | 206 | 75.7 | 22.3 | 1.9 | 77.7 | 19.9 | 2.4 | ||
60-69 | 119 | 65.5 | 29.4 | 5.0 | 73.9 | 23.5 | 2.5 | ||
Level of education | 0.005 | 0.098 | |||||||
High school graduate | 220 | 61.4 | 35.0 | 3.6 | 66.8 | 27.7 | 5.5 | ||
College | 657 | 70.2 | 26.0 | 3.8 | 75.6 | 21.2 | 3.2 | ||
College graduate | 123 | 56.9 | 35.0 | 8.1 | 73.2 | 24.4 | 2.4 | ||
Region of residence | 0.475 | 0.006 | |||||||
Seoul | 541 | 68.8 | 26.6 | 4.6 | 75.8 | 22.0 | 2.2 | ||
Daejeon | 79 | 62.0 | 31.6 | 6.3 | 73.4 | 16.5 | 10.1 | ||
Daegu | 125 | 67.2 | 31.2 | 1.6 | 66.4 | 30.4 | 3.2 | ||
Pusan | 182 | 64.8 | 31.3 | 3.8 | 69.2 | 25.8 | 4.9 | ||
Gwangju | 73 | 58.9 | 35.6 | 5.5 | 78.1 | 17.8 | 4.1 | ||
TKM reliability | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||||||
Trust | 666 | 85.6 | 13.7 | 0.8 | |||||
Neutral | 291 | 52.2 | 40.5 | 7.2 | |||||
Distrust | 43 | 27.9 | 48.8 | 23.3 | |||||
Western medicine reliability | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||||||
Trust | 734 | 77.7 | 20.7 | 1.6 | |||||
Neutral | 230 | 39.6 | 51.3 | 9.1 | |||||
Distrust | 36 | 13.9 | 58.3 | 27.8 | |||||