Attitudes and knowledge about direct and indirect risks among conventional and complementary health care providers in cancer care

Table 3 Attitudes and knowledge about direct risk situations (n = 466)^a

	Total		Medical doctor (n = 142)		Nurse (n = 69)		Provider with dual training n = 32)		Complementary therapist (n = 223)		p-value
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Complementary modalities can cause adverse effects^^											< 0.001^*
Yes	376	82.1	134	94.4	64	92.8	27	87.1	151	69.9
Complementary modalities can cause harmful interactions with conventional treatments											< 0.001^*
Yes	265	59.2	105	76.6	55	84.6	16	51.6	89	41.4
Treated patiens for whom a complementary modality was effective											< 0.001^*
Yes	239	60.8	32	24.2	27	49.1	25	96.2	155	86.1
Treated patients for whom a complementary modality was harmful											< 0.001^*
Yes	97	24.7	51	38.3	27	51.9	3	11.5	16	8.8
Combining complementary and conventional treatments increases patient risk											< 0.001^*
Yes	240	62.8	101	77.7	49	92.5	14	58.3	76	43.4

^*Pearson’s chi-square test; ^Fisher’s exact test; ^aDue to multiple and missing responses, the analyzed numbers do not always add up to the total number;^^The missing response variated between (n = 8 and n = 84)

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