Table 2.

Prevalence of use of any type and specific types of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM), by nationality

Use of CAM	Total sample (n = 841)		Qatari (n = 380)		Non-Qatari (n = 461)		P-value
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Any type	321	38.2	162	42.6	159	34.5	0.02
Nutritional remedies
Yes	158	18.8	68	17.9	90	19.5	0.01
No	163	19.4	94	24.7	69	15.0
Herbal remedies
Yes	134	15.9	67	17.6	67	14.5	0.89
No	187	22.2	95	25.0	92	20.0
Psychological methods
Yes	25	3.0	14	3.7	11	2.4	0.56
No	296	35.2	148	38.9	148	32.1
Physical methods
Yes	97	11.5	69	18.2	28	6.1	< 0.001
No	224	26.6	93	24.5	131	28.4
Folk medicine
Yes	38	4.5	26	6.8	12	2.6	0.02
No	283	33.7	136	35.8	147	31.9