Prevalence and associations for use of a traditional medicine provider in the SAMINOR 1 Survey: a population-based study on Health and Living Conditions in Regions with Sami and Norwegian Populations

Table 1 Basic characteristics of the total sample and among users and non-users of TM

	Total sample		TM users		No TM users		p-value*
	%	n**	%	n	%	n
Age
Mean	54.05	16,544	52.3	2276	54.3	14,268	<0.001
Range	(30–79)	16,544	30–78	2276	30–79	14,268
Gender							<0.001
Men	48.2	7973	11.5	914	88.5	7196
Women	51.8	8571	15.9	1362	84.1	7393
Living with a spouse/partner							0.089
Yes	76.6	10,176	13.4	1366	86.6	8810
No	23.4	3105	14.6	454	85.4	2651
Household income							<0.001
Low (< NOK 300′/ € 32′)	38.9	5808	15.6	907	84.4	4901
Middle (NOK 300′-600′/€ 32′-63′)	49.8	7433	13.6	1008	86.4	6425
High (>NOK 600′/€ 63′)	11.3	1685	11.8	199	88.2	1486
Years of Education							0.250
Primary (0–9 years)	37.0	5465	14.3	784	85.7	4681
Secondary (10–12 years)	30.1	4437	13.2	585	86.8	3852
College/university (13 years or more)	32.9	4862	13.8	673	86.2	4189
Ethnicity							<0.001
Sami	23.9	3946	25.7	1014	74.3	2932
Sami affiliation	11.4	1885	15.6	294	84.4	1591
Non-Sami	64.6	10,649	9.1	964	90.9	9685
Area of living							<0.001
Region 1	9.4	1548	31.1	481	68.9	1067
Region 2	16.4	2719	11.3	306	88.7	2413
Region 3	53.2	8809	13.3	1170	86.7	7639
Region 4	21.0	3468	9.2	319	90.8	3149
Church affiliation							<0.001
Church of Norway	83.7	11,121	12.8	1423	87.2	9698
The Laestadian church	6.0	795	34.3	273	65.7	522
Other church /religion	2.3	312	15.7	49	84.3	263
Not a member of any church /religion	8.0	1060	8.5	90	91.5	970

*Pearson’s chi-square test; ‘1000; ** Due to different number of respondents to the three questionnaires used in the study (Q1 = 16,544, Q2 = 15,730 and Q3 = 13,547) and missing responses to some of the questions, the number of respondents in single questions does not always add up to n = 16,544

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