Table 2 Trust in KM and Western medicine in 2014
Characteristics | KM trust (%) | Western medicine trust (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Trust | Neutral | Distrust | P-value | Trust | Neutral | Distrust | P-value | |
(Average) | (59.4) | (34.6) | (6.0) | (75.6) | (22.0) | (2.4) | ||
Gender | 0.133 | 0.907 | ||||||
Male | 57.0 | 35.7 | 7.2 | 75.7 | 21.7 | 2.6 | ||
Female | 61.8 | 33.5 | 4.8 | 75.5 | 22.3 | 2.2 | ||
Age (yr) | <0.001 | 0.439 | ||||||
20–29 | 53.2 | 38.4 | 8.4 | 74.2 | 23.2 | 2.6 | ||
30–39 | 51.4 | 40.1 | 8.6 | 76.6 | 21.6 | 1.8 | ||
40–49 | 60.6 | 34.3 | 5.1 | 74.2 | 22.9 | 3.0 | ||
50–59 | 67.4 | 28.5 | 4.1 | 76.5 | 21.7 | 1.8 | ||
60–69 | 66.4 | 30.5 | 3.1 | 77.1 | 19.8 | 3.1 | ||
Region of residence | 0.730 | 0.440 | ||||||
Seoul | 59.1 | 33.8 | 7.1 | 76.2 | 21.4 | 2.4 | ||
Daejeon | 61.0 | 31.2 | 7.8 | 74.0 | 24.7 | 1.3 | ||
Daegu | 57.8 | 35.2 | 7.0 | 74.2 | 21.1 | 4.7 | ||
Busan | 62.9 | 34.9 | 2.2 | 74.2 | 23.7 | 2.2 | ||
Gwangju | 53.5 | 42.3 | 4.2 | 78.9 | 21.1 | 0.0 | ||
KM trust | <0.001 | |||||||
Trust | 87.0 | 11.8 | 1.2 | |||||
Neutral | 57.8 | 39.9 | 2.3 | |||||
Distrust | 65.0 | 20.0 | 15.0 | |||||
Western medicine trust | <0.001 | |||||||
Trust | 68.4 | 26.5 | 5.2 | |||||
Neutral | 31.8 | 62.7 | 5.5 | |||||
Distrust | 29.2 | 33.3 | 37.5 | |||||