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Table 2 Characteristics of health care professional participants

From: Complementary and alternative medicine use in oncology: A questionnaire survey of patients and health care professionals

Variables

Number of Participants

Number of CAM Users (%)

p value (χ2)

Total

156

62 (39.7)

 

Gender

  

0.001

   Male

38

7 (18.4)

 

   Female

118

55 (46.6)

 

Age*

31.1 ± 7.3

33.3 ± 8.6

0.001†

Ethnicity

  

0.211

   Caucasian

136

56 (41.2)

 

   Non-Caucasian

18

5

 

   Missing

1

1

 

Professions

  

0.050

   Doctors

59

17 (28.8)

 

   Nurses

61 27

30 (49.2)

 

   Physiotherapists

27

10 (37.0)

 

   Pharmacists

5

4 (80.0)

 

   Occupational therapists

2

0

 

   S&L therapists

2

1

 
  1. * mean ± standard deviation
  2. † student's t-test
  3. S&L therapists, speech and language therapists