Table 2.

The use of products considered complementary alternative medicine (CAM) among adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD, n = 97) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA, n = 50)

	IBD patients using CAM	JIA patients using CAM
No. of patients using CAM (percentage of respondents with the given diagnosis)	52 (54%)	19 (38%)
	The proportions of the products used that are considered CAM (among CAM users)
Probiotics	62%	58%
Multivitamin products	54%	42%
Minerals and trace elements*	37%	21%
Omega-3 and −6 products	23%	37%
Supplementary nutrition products for athletes	12%	0%
Mind-body medicine	7.7%	0%
Body-based practices and energy medicine	3.8%	5.3%

The differences between the IBD and JIA groups are not statistically significant.

*iron and calcium substitutions excluded.