Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics, Internal Consistency Reliability, and Item Discrimination of Clinicians' Orientation toward Integrative Medicine Scale and Subscales

Scale/Domain	No. of Items	Mean Score*	Median Score*	SD	Skewness of Scale†	% Scoring Minimum	% Scoring Maximum	Internal Consistency‡	Item Discrimination§
Awareness and openness to working with practitioners from other paradigms	10	69	72	20	−0.72	1	2	0.90	0.94
Readiness to refer patients to other paradigms	7	64	67	18	−0.13	1	2	0.74	0.75
Learning from alternate paradigms	5	43	40	20	0.21	3	1	0.78	0.95
Patient-centered care	3	73	75	17	−0.56	1	11	0.71	1.0
Safety of integrative medicine	5	74	80	19	−0.98	1	4	0.76	0.80
Clinicians' orientation toward Integrative Medicine Scale (IM-30)	30	64	66	14	−0.66	1	1	0.90	—

^*Possible range 0–100, with higher scores indicative of greater orientation toward integrative medicine.

^†Unbounded.

^‡Cronbach's coefficient α.

^§Mean percentage of times that items in the scale correlated at least two standard errors higher with its hypothesized scale compared with other scales, correcting for overlap.