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Table 1 Basic characteristics of the total sample and of the participants visiting TM providers, CM providers, and TM as well as CM providers

From: Prevalence, and health- and sociodemographic associations for visits to traditional and complementary medical providers in the seventh survey of the Tromsø study

 

The total population

No visits to T&CM providers

Visits to TM providers

Visits to CM providers

Visits to both TM and CM providers

p-value*

 

% (n = 21,083)

% (n = 18,977)

% (n = 324)

% (n = 1580)

% (n = 202)

 

1. Self-reported health (scale 0–100)

 Mean (SD)

76.1 (16.32)

76.5 (16.10)

68.6 (17.73)

73.1 (17.31)

66.9 (18.57)

< 0.001b

 Missing

416

377

10

21

8

 

2. Self-reported health1

      

 Good

68.4

14,290

69.6

13,094

45.0

144

61.2

957

47.7

95

<0.001a

 Neither

26.1

5450

25.3

4762

42.2

135

30.5

478

37.7

75

 

 Bad

5.6

1163

5.1

963

12.8

41

8.3

130

14.6

29

 

 Missing

 

180

 

158

 

4

 

15

 

3

 

3. Use of other health care last year

 Seen a GP

80.5

16,852

79.3

14,935

92.9

301

91.2

1432

91.1

184

0.583a

 Missing

 

153

 

144

 

0

 

9

 

0

 

 Number of visits to GP Mean (SD)

3.46 (3.61)

3.32 (3.49)

5.74 (5.84)

4.24 (3.82)

5.01 (4.75)

< 0.001a

 Missing

 

1619

 

1457

 

37

 

107

 

18

 

 Hospitalized

11.0

2297

10.6

1989

24.1

77

12.7

199

15.9

32

< 0.001a

 Missing

 

209

 

190

 

5

 

12

 

1

 

4. Age

 Mean (SD)

57.3 (11.42)

57.46 (11.44)

59.3 (12.94)

55.4 (10.75)

55.8 (10.67)

< 0.001b

 40–59 years

59.1

12,467

60.1

11,094

53.9

172

69.3

1069

67.3

132

< 0.001a

 60 years and above

38.2

8052

39.9

7369

46.1

147

30.7

473

32.7

64

 

5. Gender

 Men

47.5

10,009

49.0

9294

38.6

125

32.7

516

36.6

74

0.085a

 Women

52.5

11,074

51.0

6983

61.4

199

67.3

1064

63.4

128

 

6. Living with a spouse/partner

           

 Yes

76.8

15,283

77.1

13,814

72.4

213

76.3

1137

64.3

119

0.001a

 No

23.2

4609

22.9

4108

27.6

81

23.7

354

35.7

66

 

 Missing

 

1191

 

1055

 

30

 

89

 

17

 

7. Household income2

 < NOK 451′/ € 45’

22.5

4545

22.1

4019

37.9

114

22.0

336

39.8

76

< 0.001a

 NOK 451′-750′/€ 45′-75’

29.2

5884

29.1

5269

33.9

102

29.6

452

31.9

61

 

 > NOK 750′/€ 75’

48.3

9756

48.9

8880

28.2

85

48.3

737

28.3

54

 

 Missing

 

898

 

809

 

23

 

55

 

11

 

8. How will you evaluate your finaces3

           

 Good

70.3

14,554

71.0

13,246

54.4

170

66.4

1035

53.1

103

<0.001a

 Average

26.2

5426

25.7

4792

36.2

113

28.9

451

36.1

70

 

 Difficult

3.6

737

3.3

614

9.3

29

4.7

73

10.8

21

 

 Missing

 

366

 

325

 

12

 

21

 

8

 

9. Years of education

           

 Primary school

23.2

4796

22.9

4263

39.2

123

22.5

350

30.3

60

<0.001a

 Secondary school

27.8

5756

27.6

5147

26.8

84

30.0

467

29.3

58

 

 College/university less than 4 years

19.4

4008

19.3

3603

16.2

51

20.5

318

18.2

36

 

 College/university 4 years or more

29.7

6145

30.2

5625

17.8

56

27.0

420

22.2

44

 

 Missing

 

378

 

339

 

10

 

25

 

4

 

10. Ethnicity

           

 Norwegian

92.4

19,040

92.6

17,180

86.8

270

91.9

1424

86.5

166

<0.001a

 Sami/Kven

4.2

857

3.9

725

12.5

39

4.7

73

10.4

20

 

 Other

3.4

707

3.5

647

0.6

2

3.4

52

3.1

6

 

 Missing

 

479

 

425

 

13

 

31

 

10

 

11. Importance of religion

           

 Very important

8.3

1714

7.6

1414

36.8

113

9.7

150

19.0

37

<0.001a

 Somewhat important

48.6

10,019

48.4

8969

48.2

148

51.5

797

5.8

105

 

 Not important

43.0

8862

44.0

8163

15.0

46

38.8

600

27.2

53

 

 Missing

 

488

 

431

 

17

 

33

 

7

 
  1. aPearson’s chi-square test; bOne-Way ANOVA test; ‘1000; 1The differences remained when adjusting for age (p < 0.001), education (p < 0.001), and income (p < 0.001); 2The differences remained when adjusting for age (p = 0.015), self-reported health (p = 0.001), and living with a spouse/partner (p = 0.009); 3The differences remained when adjusting for age (p < 0.001) and self-reported health (p < 0.001), but not when adjusted for living with a spouse/partner (p = 0.803)
  2. Variable names are presented in bold
  3. *The p-value refers to the difference between the following three groups: Visits to TM providers, Visits to CM providers, and Visits to both TM and CM providers