Table 2 Prescription medication association with CAM use among patients with hypertension (HTN) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)
Variables | Hypertension (n = 311) | Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (n = 130) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Used CAM 247 (79.4) | Did not use CAM 64 (20.6) | p-value† | Used CAM 85 (65.3) | Did not use CAM 45 (34.6) | p-value | |
Prescribed medicine for HTN/DM | 0.080 | 0.860 | ||||
Yes | 221 (89.8) | 61 (96.8) | 80 (94.1) | 42 (93.3) | ||
No | 25 (10.2) | 2 (3.2) | 5 (5.9) | 3 (6.7) | ||
Provider of prescription medicine | 0.936 | 0.170 | ||||
Hospital/Health center | 129 (58.6) | 36 (58.1) | 44 (58.7) | 30 (71.4) | ||
Pharmacy | 91 (41.4) | 26 (41.9) | 31 (41.3) | 12 (28.6) | ||
Pay for medication | 0.220 | 0.014 | ||||
No | 71 (32.0) | 25 (40.3) | 18 (23.7) | 18 (46.2) | ||
Yes | 151 (68.0) | 37 (59.7) | 58 (76.3) | 21 (53.9) | ||
Refill medicine on-time | 0.787 | 0.163 | ||||
Yes | 172 (75.8) | 48 (77.4) | 57 (73.1) | 33 (84.6) | ||
No/Sometimes | 55 (24.2) | 14 (22.6) | 21 (26.9) | 6 (15.4) | ||
Take medicine as prescribed | 0.299 | 0.153 | ||||
Always | 110 (48.3) | 34 (55.7) | 41 (51.3) | 26 (65.0) | ||
Not Always | 118 (51.8) | 27 (44.3) | 39 (48.8) | 14 (35.0) | ||
Medicine controlling disease | 0.051 | 0.937 | ||||
Yes | 172 (77.5) | 55 (88.7) | 67 (85.9) | 35 (85.4) | ||
No/Sometimes | 50 (22.5) | 7 (11.3) | 11 (14.1) | 6 (14.6) | ||
Discontinues medicine when BP normal | 0.099 | |||||
Yes/Sometimes | 74 (33.2) | 13 (22.0) | ||||
No | 149 (66.8) | 46 (78.0) | ||||
Experience side effects from medicine | 0.781 | 0.013 | ||||
Yes | 73 (33.0) | 19 (31.2) | 32 (41.0) | 7 (18.0) | ||
No | 148 (67.0) | 42 (68.9) | 46 (59.0) | 32 (82.1) | ||