TABLE 2.
Physically Active >0 Days |
Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose >0 Days |
Foot Inspection >0 Days |
Following Healthful Eating Plan >0 Days |
Medication Adherence 7 Days |
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CAM Category | N | Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | Count | % |
Food home remedy | |||||||||||
Yes | 354 | 118 | 33.5 | 275 | 77.7 | 279 | 79.3 | 118 | 33.6 | 326 | 92.1 |
No | 324 | 86 | 26.8 | 241 | 74.4 | 238 | 75.3 | 106 | 33.5 | 301 | 92.9 |
Other home remedy | |||||||||||
Yes | 385 | 116 | 30.4 | 301 | 78.2 | 309 | 80.7* | 133 | 35.0 | 352 | 91.4 |
No | 294 | 88 | 30.1 | 216 | 73.5 | 209 | 73.1 | 91 | 31.6 | 276 | 93.9 |
Vitamins/minerals | |||||||||||
Yes | 341 | 104 | 30.7 | 270 | 79.2 | 269 | 80.1 | 134 | 40.0*** | 318 | 93.3 |
No | 338 | 100 | 29.9 | 247 | 73.1 | 249 | 74.8 | 90 | 27.0 | 310 | 91.7 |
Herbs | |||||||||||
Yes | 39 | 15 | 38.5 | 30 | 76.9 | 31 | 79.5 | 19 | 50.0* | 37 | 94.9a |
No | 640 | 189 | 29.8 | 487 | 76.1 | 487 | 77.3 | 205 | 32.5 | 591 | 92.3 |
Popular manufactured products | |||||||||||
Yes | 41 | 16 | 39.0 | 33 | 80.5 | 33 | 80.5 | 20 | 51.3* | 39 | 95.1a |
No | 630 | 186 | 29.8 | 478 | 75.9 | 478 | 77.0 | 203 | 32.7 | 583 | 92.5 |
CAM therapies | |||||||||||
Yes | 67 | 20 | 30.3 | 55 | 82.1 | 55 | 83.3 | 32 | 49.2** | 63 | 94.0 |
No | 611 | 184 | 30.3 | 461 | 75.5 | 462 | 76.7 | 191 | 31.7 | 564 | 92.3 |
CAM practitioners | |||||||||||
Yes | 57 | 19 | 33.3 | 47 | 82.5 | 45 | 80.4 | 20 | 35.7 | 51 | 89.5a |
No | 619 | 185 | 30.1 | 467 | 75.4 | 470 | 77.1 | 204 | 33.5 | 574 | 92.7 |
Note. CAM = complementary and alternative medicine; ELDER = Evaluating Long-term Diabetes Self-management among Elder Rural Adults; N = maximum row denominator; number may vary slightly because of missing data.
Fisher’s exact test used because of low expected cell counts.
.01 < p ≤ .05
.001 < p ≤ .01
p ≤ .001, for chi-square tests of association between CAM categories and self-management domains.