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Table 1 Demographic characteristics and their relation with the use of CAM among healthcare professionals

From: Iranian healthcare professionals’ knowledge, attitudes, and use of complementary and alternative medicine: a cross sectional study

Variables

Data (N = 210)

Use of CAM

(at least once during lifetime)

Yes

No

P-value*

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Sex

Men

57 (27.4)

55 (96.5)

2 (3.5)

0.183

Women

151 (72.6)

150 (99.3)

1 (0.7)

Marital status

Marriage

151 (74.4)

149 (98.7)

2 (1.3)

1

Single

52 (25.6)

51 (98.1)

1 (1.9)

Type of healthcare professionals

Physicians

8 (3.8)

7 (87.5)

1 (12.5)

0.036

Nurses

93 (45.5)

91 (97.8)

2 (2.2)

Midwives

32 (15.3)

32 (100)

0

Health workers

76 (36.4)

7 (100)

0

Years of practice

5 ≥

123 (61.2)

121 (98.4)

2 (1.6

0.989

> 5

78 (38.8)

77 (98.7)

1 (1.3)

Recommending complementary / alternative therapies to your clients

Yes

131 (64.2)

131 (100)

0

0.045

No

73 (35.8)

70 (95.9)

3 (4.1)

Do you have any questions from your clients about their use of complementary / alternative therapies?

Yes

124 (61.7)

124 (100)

0

0.055

No

77 (38.3)

74 (96.1)

3 (3.9)

How do you think the status of alternative therapies / therapies in the future?

Replace medical treatments

11 (5.3)

11 (100)

0

0.957

Both medical treatments and complementary therapies will be prescribed

139 (67.1)

137 (98.6)

2 (1.4)

Only medical treatments will be prescribed

5 (2.4)

5 (100)

0

I do not know

52 (25.1)

51 (98.1)

1 (1.9)

  1. * Chi-square