Use of complementary and alternative medicine in Norway: a cross-sectional survey with a modified Norwegian version of the international questionnaire to measure use of complementary and alternative medicine (I-CAM-QN)

Table 1 Basic characteristics of the participants

	The total sample %		Users of CAM¹%		Non-users of CAM%		p-value
	Unweighted sample	Weighted sample	Unweighted sample	Weighted sample	Unweighted sample	Weighted sample	Unweighted sample	Weighted sample
Total CAM use^a	100	100	61.9	62.2	38.1	37.8
Sex							< 0.001*	< 0.001*
Men	51.4	50.2	51.5	51.6	48.5	48.4
Women	48.6	49.8	72.8	72.9	27.2	27.1
Age
Mean age (SD)	46.80 (18.79)	47.31 (18.74)	45.94 (18.71)	46.34 (18.70)	48.19 (18.85)	48.91 (18.72)	0.009**	0.003**
Age groups
16–29 years	22.7	21.9	64.6	65.5	35.4	34.5	0.037*	< 0.029*
30–59 years	50.0	50.3	63.0	63.2	37.0	36.8
60 year or more	27.2	27.9	57.4	57.8	42.6	42.2
Household Income							0.040*	< 0.035*
Low	15.9	15.8	69.6	70.2	30.4	29.8
Middle	32.3	32.4	60.4	60.9	39.6	39.1
High	51.8	51.8	62.1	62.1	37.9	37.9
Years of Education							< 0.001*	< 0.001*
Primary school	9.5	9.8	56.3	56.9	43.7	43.1
Secondary school	38.0	37.6	57.2	57.8	42.8	42.2
College/university less than 4 years	31.4	31.5	68.9	68.8	31.1	31.2
College/university 4 years or more	21.0	21.1	62.4	62.6	37.6	37.4
Region							0.221*	< 0.234*
South East	50.1	50.5	64.1	64.5	35.9	35.5
South	5.5	5.6	56.0	56.6	44.0	43.4
West	27.0	26.3	59.3	59.8	40.7	40.2
Mid (Trøndelag)	8.3	8.2	63.3	62.4	36.7	37.6
North	8.8	9.3	59.9	59.7	40.1	40.3

^a Users of CAM include participants who received CAM from any provider, who used CAM self-help techniques or reported intake of CAM over the counter remedies; * Pearson Chi-square test, ** Independent-Samples T-test

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