Table 4.

Disease activity and the use of complementary alternative medicine (CAM) in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)

	IBD (n = 95)*		JIA (n = 50)**
	CAM users	Non-users	CAM users	Non-users
	n = 45	n = 50	n = 19	n = 31
Inactive or mild disease activity	25	28	11	27
Moderate to severe disease activity	22	22	8	4

*data missing: n = 2; **CAM significantly more frequent among patients with active JIA (p < 0.05).