Table 3.

Patients' socio-demographic characteristics by attitudes to health

	Alternative medicine	Medical outcomes	Medical encounters	Natural remedies	Holism	Rejection of authority	Responsibility	Consumerism
Gender
Males mean (SD)	-0.02 (1.01)	-0.01 (0.96)	0.03 (0.98)	-0.009 (1.0)	0.002 (1.02)	-0.05 (1.04)	-0.04 (0.98)	-0.06 (1.02)
Females mean (SD)	0.08 (0.98)	0.04 (1.12)	-0.11 (1.07)	-0.03 (1.03)	-0.005 (0.93)	0.17 (0.84)	0.13 (1.05)	0.22 (0.88)
Mean Difference	-0.10	-0.049	0.14	-0.038	0.007	-0.22	-0.17	-0.28*
95% CI of mean diff	-0.34, 0.14	-0.29, 0.19	-0.10, 0.38	-0.27, 0.20	-0.23, 0.24	-0.45, 0.02	-0.40, 0.07	-0.49, -0.07
p-value	0.4	0.7	0.2	0.8	1.0	0.07	0.2	0.02
Ethnicity
Whites mean (SD)	0.04 (0.95)	-0.09 (0.97)	-0.07 (0.99)	-0.05 (0.99)	-0.001 (0.98)	0.017 (1.00)	-0.018 (1.05)	0.008 (1.00)
Non-whites mean (SD)	-0.22 (1.22)	0.48 (1.02)	0.35 (0.99)	0.26 (1.07)	0.007 (1.10)	-0.08 (1.00)	0.09 (0.68)	-0.04 (1.01)
Mean Difference	0.27	-0.57*	-0.43*	-0.31*	-0.008	0.10	-0.11	0.05
95% CI of mean diff	-0.06, 0.59	-0.84, -0.31	-0.69, -0.17	-0.58, -0.05	-0.27, 0.25	-0.16, 0.36	-0.31, 0.09	-0.22, 0.31
p-value	0.05	<0.001	0.001	0.02	1.0	0.5	0.4	0.7
Age group
<65 yrs mean (SD)	0.07 (1.01)	0.03 (1.04)	0.13 (1.02)	0.02 (1.04)	0.01 (1.03)	-0.02 (1.08)	-0.05 (1.01)	-0.013 (1.03)
65+ yrs mean (SD)	-0.11 (0.98)	-0.04 (0.92)	-0.20 (0.93)	-0.03 (0.94)	-0.02 (0.95)	0.02 (0.87)	0.07 (0.98)	0.02 (0.97)
Mean Difference	0.19	0.06	0.33*	0.05	0.03	-0.04	-0.12	-0.03
95% CI of mean diff	-0.02, 0.39	-0.14, 0.27	0.13, 0.53	-0.15, 0.25	-0.16, 0.23	-0.24, 0.16	-0.32, 0.08	-0.17, 0.23
p-value	0.07	0.5	0.001	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.2	0.8

* p < 0.05.

Attitudes to health presented as z-scores.