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 |