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Table 4 Results of Welch’s ANOVA for the factors’ mean values

From: What motivates new, established and long-term users of herbal medicine: is there more than push and pull?

 

User Group Means (SD)

 

Factor

New user

(n = 166)

Established user

(n = 1,482)

Long-term user

(n = 544)

Welch’s ANOVA (F ratio)

Pull factor

3.62 (0.83)

3.93 (0.70)

4.10 (0.72)

21.15 ****

Push factor

2.83 (0.89)

2.97 (0.87)

3.00 (0.91)

2.44

Traditional factor

2.70 (1.10)

3.07 (1.03)

4.00 (0.90)

245.32 ****

  1. The Games-Howell post-hoc comparison showed that all groups differed significantly from each other for the pull and traditional factor. Mean = mean value; SD = standard deviation; **** p ≤ .0005