Table 2.

Support for Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Physicians' Level of Spirituality

	Spinal manipulation		Acupuncture		Energy medicine		Meditation		Glucosamine-chondroitin		Body work
Physician spirituality	%	pa	%	p	%	p	%	p	%	p	%	p
Have used personally
Very spiritual	17	0.06	9	0.02	6	0.02	37	<0.01	33	<0.01	46	<0.01
Moderately spiritual	14		13		3		30		25		38
Slightly spiritual	12		6		2		24		16		33
Not spiritual at all	8		2		1		14		14		24
Have ever recommended to patients
Very spiritual	60	0.24	65	0.53	9	0.18	66	0.04	82	0.04	71	0.18
Moderately spiritual	59		69		7		68		87		74
Slightly spiritual	61		69		5		58		86		71
Not spiritual at all	49		69		5		57		69		62
Would be likely to integrate
Very spiritual	17	<0.01	17	0.04	15	0.06	31	<0.01	36	<0.01	33	<0.01
Moderately spiritual	8		11		9		16		25		20
Slightly spiritual	8		8		9		12		21		15
Not spiritual at all	2		10		7		14		14		11

^ap-values are based on the Mantel-Haenszel χ² test between an ordinal and a dichotomous variable.