Table 1: Demographic information for patients who responded to the survey at Stollery Children’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, February to July 2007.
| Characteristic | Stollery |
CHEO |
Both sites, no. (%) or mean ± SD | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n* | No. (%) or mean ± SD |
n* | No. (%) or mean ± SD |
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|
Patients |
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| Age, mean ± SD |
145 |
7.0 ± 5.6 |
31 |
8.6 ± 5.0 |
7.3 ± 5.5 |
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| Sex, male |
144 |
81 |
(56.3) |
31 |
19 |
(61.3) |
100 |
(57.1) |
| Ethnicity |
136 |
31 |
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| White |
54 |
(39.7) |
12 |
(38.7) |
66 |
(39.5) |
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| Canadian/French Canadian |
50 |
(36.8) |
14 |
(45.2) |
64 |
(38.3) |
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| Aboriginal/Native/Metis/Inuit |
18 |
(13.2) |
4 |
(12.9) |
22 |
(13.2) |
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| East Indian |
9 |
(6.6) |
1 |
(3.2) |
10 |
(6.0) |
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| Asian |
7 |
(5.1) |
1 |
(3.2) |
8 |
(4.8) |
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| Black |
3 |
(2.2) |
0 |
3 |
(1.8) |
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| Middle Eastern |
5 |
(3.7) |
0 |
5 |
(3.0) |
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| Latin American/Mexican |
4 |
(2.9) |
1 |
(3.2) |
5 |
(3.0) |
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| Health status† |
145 |
31 |
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| Excellent |
33 |
(22.8) |
4 |
(12.9) |
37 |
(21.0) |
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| Very good |
64 |
(44.1) |
10 |
(32.3) |
74 |
(42.0) |
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| Good |
32 |
(22.1) |
14 |
(45.2) |
46 |
(26.1) |
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| Fair |
15 |
(10.3) |
2 |
(6.5) |
17 |
(9.7) |
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| Poor |
1 |
(0.7) |
1 |
(3.2) |
2 |
(1.1) |
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| Time since diagnosis, mo |
142 |
31 |
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| 0–3 |
31 |
(21.8) |
4 |
(12.9) |
35 |
(20.2) |
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| > 3–6 |
11 |
(7.7) |
1 |
(3.2) |
12 |
(6.9) |
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| > 6–12 |
14 |
(9.9) |
3 |
(9.7) |
17 |
(9.8) |
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| > 12 |
86 |
(60.6) |
23 |
(74.2) |
109 |
(63.0) |
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| Use of CAM in lifetime, yes‡ |
145 |
93 |
(64.1) |
31 |
11 |
(35.5) |
104 |
(59.1) |
| Timing of CAM use |
82 |
11 |
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| Before conventional medicine |
9 |
(11.0) |
1 |
(9.1) |
10 |
(10.8) |
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| Concurrent with conventional medicine |
34 |
(41.5) |
4 |
(36.4) |
38 |
(40.9) |
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| After conventional medicine was successful |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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| After conventional medicine failed |
2 |
(2.4) |
0 |
2 |
(2.2) |
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| Instead of conventional medicine | 5 | (6.1) | 0 | 5 | (5.4) | |||
Note: CAM = complementary and alternative medicine, CEGEP = Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel, CHEO = Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, SD = standard deviation. *Number of valid responses. †Significantly higher at CHEO than Stollery (p = 0.008). ‡Significantly higher at Stollery than CHEO (p = 0.003). §Significantly higher at CHEO than Stollery (p = 0.04). ¶Significantly higher at CHEO than Stollery (p = 0.01).