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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Current utilization and influencing factors of complementary and alternative medicine among children with neuropsychiatric disease: a cross-sectional survey in Korea

Variable

Overall

CAM

P value

Current user (with or without other rehabilitation therapies)

Non-user with other rehabilitation therapies

Non-user without other rehabilitation therapies

All participants

578 (100.0)

110 (19.0)

200 (34.6)

268 (46.4)

 

Sex

     

 Male

328 (56.7)

55 (50.0)

127 (63.5)

146 (54.5)

0.042

 Female

250 (43.3)

55 (50.0)

73 (36.5)

122 (45.5)

 

Age (years)

     

 Mean ± SD

8.9 ± 4.9

8.6 ± 4.0aa

7.3 ± 4.5b

9.9 ± 5.2c

<0.0001

 Median (range)

9 (1–19)

9 (1–19)

6 (1–19)

10 (1–19)

 

Age (years)

     

 1–6 years (preschooler)

206 (35.6)

36 (32.7)

101 (50.5)

69 (25.7)

<0.0001

 7–12 years (primary school child)

227 (39.3)

54 (49.1)

69 (34.5)

104 (38.8)

 

 13–19 years (middle and high school child)

145 (25.1)

20 (18.2)

30 (15.0)

95 (35.4)

 
  1. aDifferences in numeric characteristics between groups were tested with an analysis of variance (ANOVA) with the Tukey-Kramer post-hoc test. Means with different scripts are different from each other (P < 0.05)