Table 1.
Patient characteristic of CAM users and non-CAM users.
| Characteristics | CAM users (%) 151 (60.9) |
Non-CAM user (%) 113 (39.1) |
P value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | 0.254 | ||
| Male | 47 (56) | 37 (44) | |
| Female | 104 (63.4) | 60 (36.4) | |
| Mean age | 53.7 yrs | 54.3 yrs | 0.728 |
| Marital status | 0.155 | ||
| Single | 21 (63.6) | 12 (36.4) | |
| Married | 100 (57.1) | 75 (42.9) | |
| Widowed/divorced | 28 (73.7) | 10 (26.3) | |
| Education status | 0.327 | ||
| Primary school or lower | 61 (55.4) | 49 (44.6) | |
| Secondary/vocational school | 43 (65.2) | 23 (34.8) | |
| Bachelor or higher | 46 (66.7) | 23 (33.3) | |
| Occupation | 0.374 | ||
| Unemployed/retired/housewife | 61 (55.4) | 49 (44.6) | |
| Employee | 28 (71.8) | 11 (28.2) | |
| Government official | 25 (71.4) | 10 (28.6) | |
| Business owner | 18 (58.1) | 13 (41.9) | |
| Agriculturist | 17 (56.7) | 13 (43.3) | |
| Income (USD/month) | 0.001* | ||
| Less than 166 | 38 (46.3) | 44 (53.7) | |
| 167–333 | 32 (60.4) | 21 (39.6) | |
| 334–666 | 40 (71.4) | 16 (28.6) | |
| More than 666 | 41 (71.9) | 16 (28.1) | |
| Cancer type | 0.019* | ||
| Breast | 38 (61.29) | 24 (38.71) | |
| Genitourinary | 36 (67.9) | 17 (32.1) | |
| Head and neck | 31 (60.8) | 20 (39.2) | |
| Gastrointestinal | 8 (34.8) | 15 (65.2) | |
| Lung | 11 (78.6) | 3 (21.4) | |
| Brain | 13 (86.7) | 2 (13.3) | |
| Others | 7 (41.2) | 10 (58.8) | |
| Not know/uncertain | 7 (53.8) | 6 (46.2) | |
| Cancer stage | 0.761 | ||
| Stage I | 33 (58.9) | 23 (41.1) | |
| Stage II | 40 (58.8) | 28 (41.2) | |
| Stage III | 29 (51.8) | 27 (48.2) | |
| Stage IV | 12 (50) | 12 (50) | |
| Do not know/uncertain | 32 (86.5) | 5 (13.5) |