Herbal medicine use behaviour in Australian adults who experience anxiety: a descriptive study

Table 3 Type of health practitioner seen and prescription of herbal medicines

Practitioner type	Frequency of type of practitioner seen in the previous 12 months^a	Number of visits in the previous 12 months	Frequency of herbal medicine prescription by practitioner
	% (n)	M ^b	% (n)^c
General practitioner	87 (348)	12.04	5.5 (19)
Psychologist	19.5 (78)	6.20	7.7 (6)
Chiropractor	15 (60)	6.62	15 (9)
Acupuncturist	13 (52)	6.73	42.3 (22)
Naturopath	12 (48)	2.76	77.1 (37)
TCM practitioner	12 (48)	4.83	83.3 (40)
Nutritionist	10.3 (41)	3.07	19.5 (8)
Psychiatrist	8.3 (33)	4.88	9.1 (3)
Western herbalist	4.8 (19)	7.56	73.7 (14)
Homeopath	4.5 (18)	4.00	72.2 (13)
Other	16.8 (67)	8.89	12.1 (8)
Manual therapist	5 (20)	8.89	12.1 (8)
Medical specialist	4.8 (19)
CAM practitioner^d	2.8 (11)
None	6.8 (27)

Note. TCM Traditional Chinese medicine practitioner. CAM Complementary and alternative medicine
^aA multiple response item; participants were asked to select from a predetermined list of health practitioners or other where they could list the other type of practitioner seen
^bMean number of visits to practitioner in previous 12 months
^cFrequency and percentage of number of each practitioner seen in the previous 12 months
^dOther CAM practitioners included iridologist, reflexologist; and Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian herbalists as described by participants

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