Sociodemographic variable | Number of patients | Percent | Users of medicinal plants | Nonuser of medicinal plants | χ2 or Fisher’s Exact Test | P value | Correlation | P value |
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Age (years) | ||||||||
< 40 | 79 | 53.0 | 26 | 53 | 31.2 | <0.001 | 0.458 | <0.01 |
≥ 40 | 70 | 47.0 | 55 | 15 | ||||
Educational level | ||||||||
No formal education or primary school | 35 | 23.5 | 20 | 15 | 0.14 | 0.85 | −0.031 | 0.7 |
Higher education | 114 | 76.5 | 61 | 53 | ||||
Monthly household income | ||||||||
Low | 57 | 38.3 | 49 | 8 | 37.2 | <0.001 | −0.499 | <0.001 |
High | 92 | 61.7 | 32 | 60 | ||||
Marital status | ||||||||
Single | 44 | 29.5 | 18 | 26 | 4.6 | 0.1 | 0.169 | 0.04 |
Married | 100 | 67.1 | 60 | 40 | ||||
Other (divorced/widowed) | 5 | 3.4 | 3 | 2 | ||||
Place of residence | ||||||||
City | 62 | 41.6 | 33 | 29 | 0.23 | 0.96 | 0.012 | 0.88 |
Village | 79 | 53.0 | 44 | 35 | ||||
Camp | 8 | 5.4 | 4 | 4 | ||||
Psoriasis stage | ||||||||
Early | 51 | 34.2 | 25 | 26 | 0.89 | 0.22 | 0.077 | 0.35 |
Late | 98 | 65.8 | 56 | 42 | ||||
Period relapsed since diagnosis (years) | ||||||||
< 2 | 70 | 47.0 | 37 | 33 | 0.12 | 0.73 | 0.028 | 0.73 |
≥ 2 | 79 | 53.0 | 44 | 35 |