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 4 Self-help practices used last 12 months

			Motivation %					Number of times practiced last 3 months (SD)
	Used % Total (women) men	p-value sex**	Acute illness	Long-term illness	Improvement of wellbeing	Other	Helpfulness % (Very or somewhat)	Number of times practiced last 3 months (SD)
Meditation	9.4 (11.1) 7.7	0.008	1.1	19.9	57.1	21.8	95.1	25.79 (31.34)
Yoga	14.8 (24.1) 5.6	< 0.001	0.9	14.7	57.2	27.2	95.3	12.71 (20.18)
Qigong	0.9 (1.5) 0.3	0.004	0.0	25.5	31.4	43.2	93.7	15.43 (25.21)
Tai Chi	0.9 (1.5) 0.3	0.017	0.0	28.9	13.7	57.3	94.0	20.86 (31.51)
Relaxation	9.8 (14.2) 5.4	< 0.001	2.5	28.9	46.1	22.5	97.7	29.15 (33.46)
Visualization	3.8 (4.8) 2.9	0.025	2.7	15.8	33.9	47.6	96.0	29.34 (33.44)
Participation in traditional healing rituals	0.3 (0.2) 0.4	0.418	0.0	13.7	0.0	86.3	84.4	7.96 (4.14)
Prayer for own health*	4.2 (5.0) 3.3	0.053	7.2	22.6	36.6	33.6	95.8	46.58 (40.31)
Mindfullness	5.5 (7.4) 3.6	< 0.001	0.0	22.9	47.7	29.3	95.1	29.13 (34.08)
Lightning process	0.0		–	–	–	–	–	–
NLP	0.4 (0.3) 0.6	0.322	0.0	38.3	12.1	49.6	100	39.98 (44.84)
Other	1.5 (2.0) 1.0	0.063	0.0	20.8	50.1	29.1	100	27.01 (26.70)
Over-all use of self-help practises	29.5 (39.0) 20.0	< 0.001
Over-all use of CAM self-help practises	29.1 (38.9) 19.3	< 0.001

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