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Table 3 Medical care visit of TCM 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)a

Use of TCM in past year

 No

11,952

(95.1)

610

(4.9)

0.0070

1.00

(reference)

 Yes

3937

(93.9)

257

(6.1)

 

1.26

(1.08–1.47)

Use of TCM in past year

 No

11,952

(95.1)

610

(4.9)

0.0071

1.00

(reference)

 1 times

1192

(94.2)

73

(5.8)

 

1.26

(0.98–1.63)

 2 times

673

(94.5)

39

(5.5)

 

1.13

(0.81–1.59)

  ≥ 3 times

2072

(93.5)

145

(6.5)

 

1.29

(1.07–1.56)

Use of folk therapy

 No

14,872

(95.2)

743

(4.8)

<0.0001

1.00

(reference)

 Yes

1012

(89.2)

123

(10.8)

 

2.23

(1.82–2.74)

Visits of TCM in past year

 No

11,952

(95.1)

610

(4.9)

0.0073

1.00

(reference)

 Low

1865

(94.3)

112

(5.7)

 

1.22

(0.98–1.50)

 Moderate

1119

(93.4)

79

(6.6)

 

1.35

(1.06–1.73)

High

953

(93.5)

66

(6.5)

 

1.23

(0.94–1.60)

 Expenditure of TCM in past year

 No

11,952

(95.1)

610

(4.9)

0.0152

1.00

(reference)

 Low

1276

(94.2)

78

(5.8)

 

1.25

(0.97–1.59)

 Moderate

1320

(93.7)

89

(6.3)

 

1.31

(1.04–1.66)

 High

1339

(93.8)

89

(6.2)

 

1.20

(0.95–1.52)

  1. CHM Chinese herbal medicine, TCM traditional Chinese medicine
  2. aAdjusted for age, gender, education, ethnicity, density of TCM physicians, and medical care in the past 6 months in the multivariate logistic regression