Use of traditional and complementary medicine among Norwegian cancer patients in the seventh survey of the Tromsø study

Kristoffersen, Agnete Egilsdatter; Stub, Trine; Broderstad, Ann Ragnhild; Hansen, Anne Helen

doi:10.1186/s12906-019-2762-7

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Table 1 Basic characteristics of the participants

From: Use of traditional and complementary medicine among Norwegian cancer patients in the seventh survey of the Tromsø study

	The total population		Cancer at present		Cancer previously, not now		Never cancer		p-value
	%	(n = 20,428^c)	%	(n = 404)	%	(n = 1232)	%	(n = 18,792)
Age
Mean (SD)	57.18 (11.365)		68.14 (10.945)		64.55 (10.945)		56.46 (11.117)		< 0.001^b
40–59 years	61.2	12,179	20.9	83	33.2	399	63.9	11,697	< 0.001^a
60 years and above	38.8	7711	79.1	315	66.8	802	36.1	6595
Gender									< 0.001^a
Women	52.3	10,674	43.8	177	56.1	681	52.2	9806
Men	47.7	9754	56.2	227	43.9	541	47.8	8986
Living with a spouse/partner									< 0.001^a
Yes	77.0	14,907	71.4	270	72.7	856	77.4	13,781
No	23.0	4448	28.6	108	27.3	322	22.6	4018
Household income
Low	22.1	4330	35.9	133	31.8	375	21.1	3822	< 0.001^a
Middle	29.2	5742	34.3	127	31.2	368	29.0	5247
High	48.7	9564	29.7	110	36.9	435	49.9	9019
How will you evaluate your finaces									0.021^a
Good	70.5	14,168	68.9	266	69.4	834	70.6	13,068
Average	26.0	5223	28.5	110	28.4	341	25.8	4772
Difficult	3.5	696	2.6	10	2.2	26	3.6	660
Years of Education									< 0.001^a
Primary school	22.7	4577	37.4	145	28.0	337	22.1	4095
Secondary school	27.8	5588	25.8	100	24.2	291	28.0	5197
College/university less than 4 years	19.5	3929	16.5	64	20.0	241	19.6	3624
College/university 4 years or more	30.0	6026	20.4	79	27.8	335	30.3	5612
Smoke daily									< 0.001^a
Yes, now	13.8	2808	10.9	43	10.9	134	14.1	2631
Yes, previously	44.1	8947	53.7	211	51.1	627	43.5	8109
Never	42.0	8521	35.4	139	37.9	465	42.4	7917
Frequency of drinking alcohol									< 0.001^a
Monthly or less frequently	32.3	6569	43.3	173	34.7	427	31.9	5969
More than once a month	67.7	13,777	56.8	227	65.3	802	68.1	12,748
Frequency of exercise									0.555^a
Less than weekly	15.9	3182	17.8	69	15.9	192	15.8	2921
Weekly or more frequently	84.1	16,893	82.2	318	84.1	1012	84.2	15,563
Ethnicity									0.096^a
Norwegian	90.4	18,462	93.5	361	94.3	1133	92.3	16,968
Sami/Kven	4.0	827	4.1	16	3.2	38	4.2	773
Other	3.4	689	2.3	9	2.6	31	3.5	649

^a Pearson’s chi-square test between the groups cancer at present, cancer previously not now, and never cancer; ^b One-way ANOVA test; ^c Due to missing responses to some of the questions, the number of respondents in single questions does not always add up to the total n

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