Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Age (mean ± SEM)	27.87 ± .60
Year in graduate school (mean ± SEM)	3.32 ± .23
Gender (% male)	27.7
Ethnicity
% Asian American	1.5
% Hispanic	1.5
% Caucasian	92.3
% Other	4.6
CACMAS score (mean ± SEM)
Philosophical congruence with CAM	4.56 ± .13
Dissatisfaction with conventional medicine	2.84 ± .14
Holistic balance	3.51 ± .16
CAM usage (number of types of CAM used, mean ± SEM)
Past use	3.02 ± .28
Current use	1.26 ± .16
Likely future use	6.78 ± .53
HLC score (mean ± SEM)
Internal	29.69 ± .61
Powerful others	14.74 ± .64
Chance	16.94 ± .65
Exercise (average days per week in past month, mean ± SEM)
Aerobic exercise	3.33 ± .22
Resistance training	1.14 ± .16

CACMAS score: Mean on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree).

HLC score: Sum of scores for the 6 questions in each of the three categories (internal, powerful others, chance), on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), with a maximum score per category = 42.