Table 1.
Demographic data in relationship to CAM use.
| Total pop (n = 2198) | CAM Use, N (percentage) |
Mind-body or body based (604, 27.5) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| None (1109, 50.5) | Any (1089, 49.5) | Biologically-based (933, 42.4) | |||
| Number (Percentage) | |||||
| Age Groups | |||||
| 18-29 | 4 (0.2) | 3 (0.3) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.2) |
| 30-39 | 104 (4.7) | 60 (5.4) | 44 (4.0) | 38 (4.1) | 26 (4.3) |
| 40-49 | 353 (16.1) | 194 (17.5) | 159 (14.6) | 131 (14.0) | 100 (16.6) |
| 50-59 | 487 (22.2) | 230 (20.7) | 257 (23.6) | 227 (24.3) | 133 (22.0) |
| 60-69 | 565 (25.7) | 274 (24.7) | 291 (26.7) | 258 (27.7) | 156 (25.8) |
| 70-84 | 614 (27.9) | 312 (28.1) | 302 (27.7) | 248 (26.6) | 170 (28.2) |
| ≥ 85 | 71 (3.2) | 36 (3.3) | 35 (3.2) | 30 (3.2) | 18 (3.0) |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| White | 1814 (98.6) | 907 (98.8) | 907 (98.5) | 776 (98.6) | 499 (98.0) |
| Black | 1 (0.05) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Hispanic | 2 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.2) |
| American Indian | 9 (0.5) | 3 (0.3) | 6 (0.7) | 5 (0.6) | 3 (0.6) |
| Asian | 2 (0.1) | 2 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Other | 11 (0.6) | 4 (0.4) | 7 (0.8) | 6 (0.8) | 6 (1.2) |
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 1776 (81.0) | 909 (82.0) | 867 (79.8) | 745 (80.1) | 474 (78.6) |
| Living together | 47 (2.1) | 22 (2.0) | 25 (2.3) | 21 (2.3) | 19 (3.2) |
| Divorced | 142 (6.5) | 62 (5.6) | 80 (7.4) | 64 (6.9) | 53 (8.8) |
| Widowed | 173 (7.9) | 84 (7.6) | 89 (8.2) | 79 (8.5) | 39 (6.5) |
| Never married | 56 (2.6) | 31 (2.8) | 25 (2.3) | 21 (2.3) | 18 (3.0) |
| Education | |||||
| Less than high school | 237 (10.8) | 136 (12.3) | 101 (9.3) | 83 (8.9) | 56 (9.3) |
| High school grad | 803 (36.6) | 452 (40.8) | 351 (32.3) | 299 (32.1) | 182 (30.1) |
| Some college | 747 (34.0) | 338 (30.5) | 409 (37.6) | 354 (38.0) | 226 (37.4) |
| College grad + | 408 (18.6) | 182 (16.4) | 226 (20.8) | 195 (21.0) | 140 (23.2) |
Note: The subcategories of biologically-based and mind-body or body based are not mutually exclusive; thus, numbers may be greater than the any CAM use column