Table 5.
Ascsociation between socio-demographic factors and the use of herbal medicines
| Herbal medicine usage | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parameter | Response | Yes | No | Total | X2-value | df | p-value |
| Total | 467(92.7%) | 37(7.3%) | 504(100%) | ||||
| Sex | Male | 250(49.6%) | 15(2.98%) | 265(52.58%) | 2.32 | 1 | 0.128 |
| Female | 217(43.1%) | 22(4.4%) | 239(47.4%) | ||||
| Age | ≤ 20 | 1(0.2%) | 8(1.6%) | 9(1.8%) | 178.85 | 5 | < 0.001 |
| 21–30 | 7(1.4%) | 11(2.2%) | 18(3.6%) | ||||
| 31–40 | 41(8.1%) | 5(1.0%) | 46(9.1%) | ||||
| 41–50 | 94(18.7%) | 5(1.0%) | 99(19.6%) | ||||
| 51–60 | 193(38.3%) | 7(1.4%) | 200(39.7%) | ||||
| ≥ 61 | 131(26.0%) | 1(0.2%) | 132(26.2%) | ||||
| Religion | Islam | 60(11.9%) | 7(1.4%) | 67(13.3%) | 1.38 | 2 | 0.503 |
| Christianity | 403(80.0%) | 30(6.0%) | 433(86.0%) | ||||
| Traditional | 4(0.8%) | 0(0.0%) | 4(0.8%) | ||||
| Education | Basic | 283(56.2%) | 16(3.2%) | 299(59.3%) | 18.43 | 3 | < 0.001 |
| Secondary | 82(16.3%) | 14(2.8%) | 96(19.0%) | ||||
| Tertiary | 28(5.6%) | 6(1.2%) | 34(6.7%) | ||||
| None | 74(14.7%) | 1(0.2%) | 75(14.9%) | ||||
| Occupation | Civil | 22(4.4%) | 9(1.8%) | 31(6.2%) | 58.59 | 3 | < 0.001 |
| Farming | 312(61.9%) | 7(1.4%) | 319(63.3%) | ||||
| Self-employed | 95(18.8%) | 8(1.6%) | 103(20.4%) | ||||
| Unemployed | 38(7.5%) | 13(2.6%) | 51(10.1%) | ||||
P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant