Complementary and alternative medicine use among children with mental health issues: results from the National Health Interview Survey

Table 5 Percentage (SE) CAM use^a in the last 12 months by health care related factor among n = 1889 children reporting any mental health condition

Health care related factor	N	Percent CAM use (standard error)	P Value^b
Health care access (Have a place to go)			.759
Yes	1808	19.1 (1.2)
No	81	21.2 (6.5)
Prescription medications			.771
Yes	633	18.7 (2.1)
No	1256	19.4 (1.4)
Difficult affording prescription medication			.541
Yes	102	22.8 (5.7)
No	1787	19.0 (1.2)
Use mental health care and counselling			.684
Yes	665	19.8 (1.9)
No	1224	18.9 (1.3)
Difficult affording mental health care and counseling			.012
Yes	87	36.9 (6.4)
No	1802	18.3 (1.2)
Delayed access to traditional medical care^c			.042
Yes	1629	18.2 (1.2)
No	260	25.3 (3.2)

^a Any of 17 Cam modalities
^b Survey weighted Wald F-test comparing percent CAM use between children with and without the indicated health care factor within the subpopulation of all children with any mental health condition
^c Delayed access due to at least one of the following reasons: difficulty getting through on phone; couldn’t get an appointment soon enough; wait too long to see doctor; wasn’t open when you could get there; didn’t have transportation

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