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Table 2 Medical care and western medicine use for people with and without purchasing CHM

From: The prevalence, characteristics, and factors associated with purchasing Chinese herbal medicine among adults in Taiwan

 

Purchase of CHM

 

No (N = 15,889)

Yes (N = 867)

 

Multivariate

n

(%)

n

(%)

p-value

OR

(95% CI)b

Purchase of biomedical medicinea

 No

13,172

(95.4)

632

(4.6)

<0.0001

1.00

(reference)

 Yes

2717

(92.0)

235

(8.0)

 

1.60

(1.36–1.88)

Emergency care in past year

 No

13,721

(95.0)

723

(5.0)

0.0137

1.00

(reference)

 Yes

2168

(93.8)

144

(6.2)

 

1.17

(0.97–1.42)

Hospitalized care in past year

 No

14,265

(95.0)

759

(5.0)

0.0352

1.00

(reference)

 Yes

1624

(93.8)

108

(6.2)

 

1.09

(0.87–1.35)

Outpatient care by WM in past yeara

 No

4893

(95.1)

255

(4.9)

0.3900

1.00

(reference)

 Yes

10,996

(94.7)

612

(5.3)

 

1.09

(0.93–1.27)

Frequency of outpatient care by WM in past year

 None

4899

(95.1)

255

(4.9)

<0.0001

1.00

(reference)

 Low

3739

(96.2)

149

(3.8)

 

0.92

(0.74–1.14)

 Moderate

3645

(94.7)

203

(5.3)

 

1.14

(0.94–1.38)

 High

3606

(93.3)

260

(6.7)

 

1.18

(0.98–1.41)

Expenditure of WM in past year

 None

4899

(95.1)

255

(4.9)

<0.0001

1.00

(reference)

 Low

3681

(96.2)

147

(3.8)

 

0.92

(0.74–1.14)

 Moderate

3619

(94.5)

210

(5.5)

 

1.18

(0.97–1.43)

 High

3690

(93.5)

255

(6.5)

 

1.14

(0.95–1.38)

  1. CHM Chinese herbal medicine, WM Western medicine
  2. aPurchase biomedical medicine without a physician’s prescription. bAdjusted for age, gender, education, ethnicity, density of TCM physicians, and medical care in the past 6 months in multiple logistic regression