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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Jun 9;17(6):1527–1534. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-08-0028

Table 5.

Significant predictors of CAM use

Predictors	Levels	OR (95% CI)
Predictors	Levels	Any CAM	Biologically based CAM	Mind-body and body based CAM
Education	Less than high school	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)
	High school graduate	1.01 (0.74, 1.40)	1.06 (0.76, 1.48)	0.98 (0.68, 1.42)
	Some college	1.44 (1.04, 2.00)	1.51 (1.08, 2.10)	1.31 (0.90, 1.89)
	College graduate and higher	1.43 (1.00, 2.05)	1.52 (1.06, 2.17)	1.48 (0.10, 2.21)
General health behavior	With one unit increase	1.72 (1.58, 1.88)	1.72 (1.58, 1.88)	1.48 (1.35, 1.62)
Optimism	With one unit increase	1.02 (1.00, 1.04)	NA^*	1.03 (1.01, 1.05)

^*

Excluded from final model by backward selection