Complementary medicine in Germany: a multi-centre cross-sectional survey on the usage by and the needs of patients hospitalized in university medical centers

Table 3 Factors affecting answering the question “Have you ever used before or are you still using at least one of the aforementioned CAM approaches regarding your current disease?”

Parameter	Distribution	Regression coefficient	Standard error	p	Odds ratio	95%-Confidence Interval
Parameter	Distribution	Regression coefficient	Standard error	p	Odds ratio	Lower	Upper
Age	–	0.011	0.009	0.208	1.011	0.994	1.028
< 60 years of age	49%	−0.079	0.260	0.761	0.924	0.555	1.538
> 60 years of age	51%	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Sex
Male	49%	0.249	0.173	0.149	1.283	0.915	1.799
Female	51%	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Department
Cardiology	17%	0.740	0.254	0.004	2.095	1.273	3.450
Gastroenterology	23%	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Gynaecology	19%	0.511	0.271	0.059	1.667	0.981	2.833
Oncology	24%	0.130	0.245	0.595	1.139	0.704	1.843
Surgery	17%	0.435	0.252	0.084	1.545	0.943	2.530
Survey location
Freiburg	31%	−0.302	0.200	0.130	0.739	0.500	1.093
Heidelberg	27%	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Tübingen	16%	0.218	0.249	0.383	1.243	0.763	2.027
Ulm	26%	0.640	0.216	0.003	1.896	1.241	2.898
Cancer
Yes	40%	−0.007	0.191	0.969	0.993	0.683	1.1443
No	60%	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference
Nationality
German	94%	0.915	0.347	0.008	2.496	1.264	4.927
Other	6%	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference	Reference

Multiple logistic regression (Nagelkerke R² = 0.084; H = 0.336), highest sample-size group was chosen as reference. Only patients for whom a complete data set was available were evaluated (n = 762). Patients in Heidelberg used CAM more frequently than patients from Ulm (51 vs. 36%). The CAM usage was significantly more frequent in patients of German nationality than in patients of other nationalities (49 vs. 28%). Patients hospitalized at the department of gastroenterology had a higher CAM usage frequency than cardiologic patients (54 vs. 39%).

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