Table 3.
Relations between sociodemographic characterisitics, perceived health status and demand for CAM practice at hospitals among all 2824 respondents.
| Do you want to receive CAM at hospitals? | Adjusted standardized residuals | P-value (χ 2 test) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes (%) | No (%) | |||
| Gender(a) | ||||
| Male | 850 (74.1) | 297 (25.9) | −2.9 | <.05 |
| Female | 1118 (78.9) | 299 (21.1) | 2.9 | |
| Age (years)(b) | ||||
| 20–29 | 185 (72.0) | 72 (28.0) | −2 | <.001 |
| 30–39 | 352 (80.2) | 87 (19.8) | 1.7 | |
| 40–49 | 463 (82.2) | 100 (17.8) | 3.3 | |
| 50–59 | 545 (80.6) | 131 (19.4) | 2.6 | |
| 60–69 | 343 (69.0) | 154 (31.0) | −4.7 | |
| >70 | 115 (67.6) | 55 (32.4) | −3 | |
| Annual household income (yen)(c) | ||||
| <3 million | 398 (70.3) | 168 (29.7) | −4.2 | <.001 |
| 3–5 million | 525 (77.1) | 156 (22.9) | 0.2 | |
| 5–7 million | 410 (81.8) | 91 (18.2) | 2.9 | |
| 7–10 million | 343 (76.9) | 103 (23.1) | 0 | |
| >10 million | 226 (80.7) | 54 (19.3) | 1.6 | |
| Occupation(d) | ||||
| Specialist and technical workers | 338 (81.3) | 78 (18.8) | 2.2 | <.001 |
| Administrative and managerial workers | 139 (79.4) | 36 (20.6) | 0.8 | |
| Clerical workers | 220 (81.2) | 51 (18.8) | 1.7 | |
| Production process and related workers | 164 (71.6) | 65 (28.4) | −2 | |
| Service workers | 165 (77.1) | 49 (22.9) | 0 | |
| Security workers | 14 (82.4) | 3 (17.6) | 0.5 | |
| Transport and communication workers | 36 (78.3) | 10 (21.7) | 0.2 | |
| Agriculture, forestry and fishery workers | 45 (59.2) | 31 (40.8) | −3.7 | |
| Sales workers | 100 (87.0) | 15 (13.0) | 2.6 | |
| Student | 33 (73.3) | 12 (26.7) | −0.6 | |
| Housewife/househusband | 426 (79.5) | 110 (20.5) | 1.5 | |
| Not employed | 231 (67.2) | 113 (32.8) | −4.7 | |
| Other | 90 (78.9) | 24 (21.1) | 0.5 | |
| Perceived health status | ||||
| Both mentally and physically fit | 747 (74.0) | 262 (26.0) | −2.9 | <.05 |
| Physically fit but mentally some problems | 180 (76.9) | 54 (23.1) | 0 | |
| Mentally fit but physically have some problems | 643 (77.3) | 189 (22.7) | 0.2 | |
| Both mentally and physically have problems | 438 (82.2) | 95 (17.8) | 3.2 | |
P-values indicate differences in proportion between gender, age groups, annual income groups, occupational groups and “perceived health status" groups, respectively.
(a)260 (9.2%); (b)222 (7.9%); (c)350 (12.4%); and (d)226 (8.0%) of the respondents did not answer the questions, respectively.