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Table 2 Descriptive characteristics of participants, Cancer occurrence, outpatient utilization pattern

From: The effect of cancer on traditional, complementary and alternative medicine utilization in Korea: a fixed effect analysis using Korea Health Panel data

Variables

Total

(N = 49,380)

Cancer Occurrencea (% or SD)

No

Yes

p-value

T&CAM usea

 Nonuser

46,381

37,861 (81.63)

8,520 (18.37)

 < 0.0001***

 User

2,999

2,233 (74.46)

766 (25.54)

 

# of T&CAM use b

 

1.94 (8.29)

2.86 (10.70)

 < 0.0001***

Conventional medicine use

 Nonuser

7,563

7,494 (99.09)

69 (0.91)

 < 0.0001***

 User

41,817

38,887 (92.99)

2,930 (7.01)

 

Control variable

Age (Year)

 

52.54 (16.51)

59.41 (13.34)

 < 0.0001***

Education

 Elementary or lower

11,348

10,497 (92.50)

851 (7.50)

 < 0.0001***

 Middle school or high school

21,634

20,076 (92.80)

1,558 (7.20)

 

 University or higher

16,398

15,808 (96.40)

590 (3.60)

 

Region

 Urban

21,397

20,087 (93.88)

1,310 (6.12)

0.690

 Rural

27,983

26,294 (93.96)

1,689 (6.04)

 

Household income c (10,000 won)

 

676.616 (520.15)

722.88 (585.35)

 < 0.0001***

Health care coverage

 National health insurance

49,928

44,166 (94.11)

2,762 (5.89)

 < 0.0001***

 Medical benefits

1,993

1,823 (91.47)

170 (8.53)

 

 special cases

459

392 (85.40)

67 (14.60)

 

Chronic musculoskeletal diseases

 No

32,549

30,923 (95.00)

1,626 (5.00)

 < 0.0001***

 Yes

16,831

15,458 (91.84)

1,373 (8.16)

 

Chronic neural diseases

 No

47,296

44,500 (94.09)

2,796 (5.91)

 < 0.0001***

 Yes

2,084

1,881 (90.26)

203 (9.74)

 

Chronic circulatory diseases

 No

35,030

33,119 (94.54)

1,911 (5.46)

 < 0.0001***

 Yes

14,350

13,262 (92.42)

1,088 (7.58)

 

Chronic respiratory diseases

 No

44,873

42,236 (94.12)

2,637 (5.88)

 < 0.0001***

 Yes

4,507

4,145 (91.97)

362 (8.03)

 

Quality of life (EQ-5D)

 

0.91 (0.09)

0.89 (0.11)

 < 0.0001***

Year

 2011

11,109

10,496 (94.48)

613 (5.52)

0.013*

 2012

10,443

9,838 (94.21)

605 (5.79)

 

 2013

9,796

9,173 (93.64)

623 (6.36)

 

 2014

9,316

8,716 (93.56)

600 (6.44)

 

 2016

8,716

8,158 (93.60

558 (6.40)

 
  1. aThe results for continuous variables are based on t-tests, and nominal variables based on chi-square tests
  2. bt-test or ANOVA used only on nominal variables
  3. cThe household income corrected by dividing it with the root of the number of household members
  4. *: p < 0.05, **:p < 0.01, ***:p < 0.001