Practice recommendations and referrals, perceptions of efficacy and risk, and self-rated knowledge regarding complementary medicine: a survey of Australian psychologists

Table 2 Demographic and practice characteristics of psychologists and recommending and referring to a number of types of CM

	Recommending CM products and practices			p	Referring to CM practitioners			p
	RR	Lower confidence limit	Upper confidence limit	p	RR	Lower confidence limit	Upper confidence limit	p
Gender ^a				0.76				0.63
Male	ref				ref
Female	0.97	0.81	1.17		0.94	0.75	1.18
Age (years)				0.62				0.03
18 to 35	ref				ref
36 to 50	0.96	0.74	1.24		1.34	0.92	1.95
51 to 65	1.06	0.82	1.36		1.65	1.14	2.38
65 plus	0.95	0.72	1.26		1.42	0.95	2.11
State and territories				0.93				0.98
New South Wales	ref				ref
Victoria	0.94	0.75	1.18		0.97	0.73	1.28
Queensland	1.01	0.84	1.21		0.99	0.79	1.24
Other states	1.00	0.82	1.24		1.03	0.80	1.32
Practice Setting				0.79				0.18
Solo private practice	ref				ref
Group practice	0.97	0.84	1.14		0.87	0.72	1.06
Years of practice				0.37				0.004
Less than 10 years	ref				ref
11 to 20	1.18	0.98	1.43		1.14	1.10	1.80
21 to 30	1.12	0.91	1.38		1.19	0.91	1.58
31 plus	1.14	0.90	1.44		1.63	1.22	2.16
AoPE/Specialty				0.74				< 0.001
General	ref				ref
Clinical	0.93	0.78	1.11		0.85	0.69	1.06
Other	0.98	0.82	1.18		1.31	1.05	1.63

^aAs there were not enough people in the gender category of Other to conduct a regression analysis they were not included

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