Table 1.

Participant characteristics

		n	%
Gender	Male	44	16.2
	Female	228	83.8
Age	<20	12	4.4
	20-29	37	13.6
	30-39	60	22.1
	40-49	61	22.4
	50-59	58	21.3
	60-69	26	9.6
	70-79	16	5.9
	>79	2	0.7
Highest Education Attained	Never received formal education/attended kindergarten	2	0.7
	Completed primary school	42	15.4
	Completed junior high school	60	22.1
	Completed high school	94	34.6
	Completed post-secondary education	29	10.7
	Completed undergraduate education	31	11.4
	Completed postgraduate education	14	5.1
Marital Status	Never married	84	30.9
	Married	155	57.0
	Widowed	8	2.9
	Divorced/Separated	21	7.7
	Refused to answer	4	1.5
Employment status	Employed full time	104	38.2
	Employed part time	29	10.7
	Unemployed	136	50.0
	Refused to answer	3	1.1
Current attendance to full time education course	Yes	23	8.4
	No	239	87.9
	Refused to answer	10	3.7
Self reported chronic disease status as diagnosed by a western allopathic doctor	Hypertension	45	16.5
	Diabetes	19	7.0
	Any heart diseases	16	5.9
	Stroke	11	4.0
	Asthma, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, or other chronic respiratory diseases	31	11.4
	Arthritis or any other chronic joint diseases	72	26.5
	Depression, anxiety disorder or any other psychiatric diseases	41	15.1
Health services utilization in the past month	Attended Chinese medicine consultation	222	81.6
	Attended western medicine consultation	134	49.3