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Table 2 Visit by Healthcare providers in the last year

From: The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use in the general population of Babol, North of Iran, 2018

health care providers

Visiteda

(%)

Motivationb

(%)c

Helpfulness (%)c

Acute illness

Long-term illness

Improvement of well-being

Very

somewhat

Not at all

Don’t know

Family practitioner

664 (37.51)

466 (70.18)

158 (23.79)

34 (5.12)

313 (47.13)

303 (45.63)

45 (6.77)

3 (0.45)

General Physician

518 (29.26)

381 (73.55)

124 23.93

19 (3.66)

218 (42.08)

285 (55.01)

15 (2.89)

0 (0.00)

Specialist Physician

670 (37.85)

191 (28.50)

419 (62.53)

14 (2.08)

302 (45.07)

330 (49.25)

11 (1.64)

2 (0.29)

Nutritionist

19 (1.07)

6

9

7

11

5

3

0

Traditional medicine healer

67 (3.78)

19 (28.35)

33 (49.25)

17 (25.37)

21 (31.34)

30 (44.77)

13 (19.40)

3 (4.4)

Acupuncturist

9 (0.50)

2

7

0

5

3

1

0

Bone setter

14 (0.79)

13

1

0

11

3

0

0

Massage practitioner

14 (0.79)

1

9

4

10

3

1

0

Other

9 (0.50)

3

4

2

3

3

2

1

  1. aPercentages are calculated relative to the total sample population (Column percentage)
  2. bPercentages are calculated according to the type of health care provider (Row Percentage)
  3. cPercentages have been reported only for cases that have used more than 20