Table 1.

Participant Characteristics

Characteristic	No. (%)
Demographics
Female	138 (55)
Ethnicity
White or European American	133 (59)
Black or African American	40 (18)
Asian or Asian American	37 (16)
Hispanic	17 (8)
Median age, y (range)	39 (18 to 85)
Education
High school graduate or less	47 (19)
Some college/college graduate	128 (52)
Postcollege education	72 (29)
Yearly income, $
<20,000	57 (24)
20,000 to 39,999	55 (23)
40,000 to 59,999	43 (18)
60,000+	87 (36)
Health and health care characteristics
Chronic medical problem or disability	69 (28)
Daily prescription medicine	117 (47)
Mean number of prescription medicines (range)	3.4 (1 to 25)
Self-rated health status excellent or very good	118 (48)
Current regular MD	139 (56)
Own MD style*
Biomedical	54 (39)
Patient-centered	84 (61)
Satisfaction with own MD (extremely or very)*	99 (71)
CAM usage
Any CAM use	189 (76)
Use of supplements, herbs, or folk remedies	137 (55)
Disclosure of CAM use to MD†	33 (50)

^*In subset of participants with a regular MD (N = 139).

^†In subset of participants with a regular MD who use supplements, herbs, or folk remedies (N = 70).

CAM, complementary and alternative medicine.