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. 2010 Sep 15;2011:591868. doi: 10.1093/ecam/neq049

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.