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Table 2 Respondents baseline characteristics for commonly used vitamins minerals and other dietary supplements *

From: Dietary supplement use among health care professionals enrolled in an online curriculum on herbs and dietary supplements

Characteristic

Total N (%)

Multi vitamin

Calcium

Vitamin B

Vitamin C

Fish oil

Vitamin E

Vitamin D

Folate

N

1249

754

495

382

373

295

286

192

187

  

60%

40%

31%

30%

24%

23%

15%

15%

Age

         

≤30

406 (32.5)

33

31

22

28

12

15

11

10

31–40

202 (16.2)

16

38

23

26

24

14

12

12

41–50

328 (26.3)

25

43

32

27

27

27

15

15

>50

313 (25.1)

25

49

45

38

35

35

24

23

  

P = .85

P < .001

P < .001

P < .001

P < .001

P < .001

P < .001

P < .001

Gender

         

Male

316 (25)

22

19

28

31

25

23

10

11

Female

933 (75)

78

47

31

30

23

23

17

16

  

P < .001

P < .001

P = .17

P = .70

p = .50

P = .96

P = .01

P = .04

Race/Ethnic

         

African American

57 (4.6)

4

16

32

26

18

26

11

11

Asian/P.I.

95 (7.6)

7

32

16

19

16

9

12

8

Caucasian

1035 (82.9)

84

42

32

31

24

24

16

16

Native American

3 (0.2)

4

67

33

33

0

33

33

33

Declined

59 (4.7)

.3

27

34

36

29

25

20

12

  

P = .711

P < .001

P = .03

P = .13

P = .15

P = .03

P = .41

P = .19

Professional Group

         

Physician

256 (20.5)

18

34

33

29

32

26

18

19

Dietician

137 (10.97)

11

54

6

17

24

16

12

12

Nurse

203 (16.3)

19

48

45

34

28

36

19

19

PA & NP

73 (5.8)

6

51

45

38

37

26

22

19

Pharmacist

41 (3.3)

3

46

20

24

32

20

15

12

Student

458 (36.7)

37

35

28

32

14

17

13

12

Residents & fellows

81 (6.5)

6

27

19

23

20

14

9

14

  

P = .02

P < .001

P < .001

P < .001

P < .001

P < .001

P = .08

P = .09

NC resident

         

Yes

587 (47)

45

43

30

28

23

24

16

14

No

662 (53)

55

36

31

32

24

22

15

16

  

P = .15

P = .01

P = .85

P = .13

P = .54

P = .37

P = .78

p = .35

Knowledge Scores

Average 65.8 ± 10.7

        

High

402 (32)

35

52

38

32

36

26

19

22

Medium

483 (39)

39

37

31

30

23

23

14

14

Low

364 (29)

26

30

21

28

11

19

13

8

  

P = .007

P < .001

P < .001

P = .47

P < .001

P = .07

P = .07

P < .001

Confidence Score

         

Low

387 (31)

30

27

24

29

22

26

27

26

Medium

289 (23)

25

23

25

26

23

26

24

23

High

275 (22)

22

23

25

23

24

21

20

24

Extremely high

297 (24)

23

27

26

22

31

26

29

28

  

P = .12

P = .08

P = .01

P = .30

P < .001

P = .09

P = .21

P = .29

Discuss HDS with Patients*

         

Yes

667 (57)

56

43

34

30

30

25

18

19

No

510 (43)

44

35

25

29

16

20

11

11

  

P = .55

P = .002

P = .001

P = .70

P < .001

P = .04

P < .001

P < .001

  1. *(15 % or > of the sample size).
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