Table 5.

Practice of CAM

Variable	Frequency	Percent
	(N)	(%)
Used/recommended complementary and	Alternative
Medicine
Yes	65	26.0
No	175	70.0
Don’t Know	10	4.0
Likely to refer a patient to a CAM practitioner (if available
at institution) for treatment of an ailment
Extremely likely	22	8.8
Somewhat likely	98	39.2
Neither likely nor unlikely	45	18.0
Somewhat unlikely	47	18.8
Extremely unlikely	38	15.2
Ever referred a patient to a CAM practitioner
Yes	26	10.4
No	207	93.2
No Response	17	6.8
Percentage of patients that health worker has discussed
The possible benefits of using CAM therapies
0–25%	174	69.6
26–50%	35	14.0
51–75%	30	12.0
76–100%	11	4.4
Percentage of patients that health worker has discussed
possible harmful outcomes of using CAM therapies
0–25%	83	33.2
26–50%	54	21.6
51–75%	72	28.8
76–100%	41	16.4
Individual who usually initiates discussion of the benefits and risks of
CAM therapy
Self	53	21.2
Patient	124	49.6
Third-party	58	23.2
No response	15	6.0