Skip to main content

Table 2 Visit frequency for TKM clinics during the past 12 months

From: Changes in attitudes toward and patterns in traditional Korean medicine among the general population in South Korea: a comparison between 2008 and 2011

Category

Non-user (%)

User (%)

P-value

  

Total

No. of TKM visits

   

1-4

5-9

≥10

Gender

     

0.004

  (Average)

(30.7)

(69.3)

(53.4)

(9.3)

(6.6)

 

  Male

34.7

65.3

51.5

9.4

4.4

 

  Female

26.7

73.3

55.3

9.2

8.8

 

Age (yrs)

     

0.054

  20-29

38.6

61.4

49.8

5.8

5.8

 

  30-39

28.3

71.7

55.7

11.4

4.6

 

  40-49

32.5

67.5

52.4

10.0

5.2

 

  50-59

25.7

74.3

57.3

8.3

8.7

 

  60-69

26.9

73.1

50.4

11.8

10.9

 

Level of education

     

0.211

  High school graduate

33.2

66.8

51.8

5.9

9.1

 

  College

29.8

70.2

54.5

9.7

5.9

 

  College graduate

30.9

69.1

50.4

13.0

5.7

 

Region of residence

     

0.305

  Seoul

31.2

68.8

51.9

9.2

7.6

 

  Daejeon

31.6

65.4

53.2

8.9

6.3

 

  Daegu

28.8

71.2

48.8

16.0

6.4

 

  Pusan

30.8

69.2

57.7

7.1

4.4

 

  Gwangju

28.8

71.2

61.6

4.1

5.5

 

TKM reliability

     

<0.001

  Trust

25.2

74.8

54.8

11.6

8.4

 

  Neutral

39.9

60.1

52.6

4.8

2.7

 

  Distrust

53.5

46.5

37.2

4.7

4.7

 

Western medicine reliability

     

0.038

  Trust

28.1

71.9

54.8

9.9

7.2

 

  Neutral

37.0

63.0

51.7

7.0

4.3

 

  Distrust

44.4

55.6

36.1

11.1

8.3