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Table 2 Self-reported health and use of health care services among 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 = 20,428c)

% (n = 404)

% (n = 1232)

% (n = 18,792)

Self-reported Health (scale 0–100)

 Mean (SD)

76.24 (16.192)

65.7 (18.948)

73.09 (16.695)

76.66 (16.002)

< 0.001b

Self-reported health

        

< 0.001a

Good

68.9

13,971

45.5

181

60.7

741

69.9

13,049

 

Neither

25.7

5215

41.7

166

32.6

398

24.9

4651

 

Bad

5.4

1103

12.8

51

6.6

81

5.2

971

 

T&CM provider

10.3

2052

13.6

51

8.7

102

10.3

1899

0.020a

Acupuncturist

4.8

958

5.8

22

3.9

46

4.8

890

0.232a

Traditional healer

2.5

508

6.4

24

3.0

35

2.4

449

< 0.001a

Other CM provider

5

1007

4.7

18

3.6

43

5.1

946

0.075a

Herbal medicine/natural remedies

17.0

3404

17.9

69

17.9

215

16.9

3120

0.625a

Self-help techniques

10.2

2053

6.4

25

9.3

111

10.4

1917

0.022a

Over all use of T&CM

30.1

5926

33.4

123

30.3

352

30.0

5451

0.361a

Visit a GP last year

80.2

16,306

92.4

366

89.5

1096

79.3

14,844

< 0.001a

Number of visits to GP Mean (SD)

3.43 (3.556)

4.94 (4.848)

3.81 (3.306)

3.37 (3.530)

< 0.001a

Been hospitalized

10.8

2197

40.8

161

19.7

241

9.6

1795

< 0.001a

Visited an out-patient clinic

28.7

5728

66.1

248

49.2

587

26.6

4893

< 0.001a

  1. a Pearson’s chi-square test between the groups cancer at present, cancer previously not now, and never; b One-way ANOVA test; ‘The significant differences did not remain when adjusted for age and gender; 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