Table 1.

Demographic and characteristics of participants

	CAM practitioners	Dual trained physicians subgroup	Primary care physicians
N	241	31	333
Sex—male : female (%)	95 : 137 (41 : 59)	20 : 10 (67 : 33)	187 : 134 (58 : 42)
Mean age in years ± SD (median)	40 ± 9.4 (38)	46.8 ± 7.15 (46)	47.7 ± 7.2 (48)
Medical specialty or CAM modality, n (%)a	Movement/Manual healing 124 (51%) Traditional Chinese medicine 88 (37%) Naturopathy 29 (12%) Homeopathy 10 (4%) Herbal medicine 9 (4%) Chiropractice 8 (3%) Healing 4 (2%) Meditation 3 (1%)	Several CAM modalities 15 Homeopathy 7 Traditional Chinese medicine 3 Meditation 3 Herbal medicine 1 Naturopathy 1	265 specialists (86%)a: Family medicine 105 (52%) Internal medicine 47 (23%) Pediatrics 9 (4.5%)

^aEighty-seven (27%) of PCPs had studied various also undergone CAM training. Twenty-four (7%) of PCPs had studied various CAM courses.