Table 1.
Patient characteristics
| Variable | Overall | CAM | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Current user (with or without other rehabilitation therapies) | Non-user with other rehabilitation therapies | Non-user without other rehabilitation therapies | |||
| All participants | 578 (100.0) | 110 (19.0) | 200 (34.6) | 268 (46.4) | |
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 328 (56.7) | 55 (50.0) | 127 (63.5) | 146 (54.5) | 0.042 |
| Female | 250 (43.3) | 55 (50.0) | 73 (36.5) | 122 (45.5) | |
| Age (years) | |||||
| Mean ± SD | 8.9 ± 4.9 | 8.6 ± 4.0aa | 7.3 ± 4.5b | 9.9 ± 5.2c | <0.0001 |
| Median (range) | 9 (1–19) | 9 (1–19) | 6 (1–19) | 10 (1–19) | |
| Age (years) | |||||
| 1–6 years (preschooler) | 206 (35.6) | 36 (32.7) | 101 (50.5) | 69 (25.7) | <0.0001 |
| 7–12 years (primary school child) | 227 (39.3) | 54 (49.1) | 69 (34.5) | 104 (38.8) | |
| 13–19 years (middle and high school child) | 145 (25.1) | 20 (18.2) | 30 (15.0) | 95 (35.4) | |
aDifferences in numeric characteristics between groups were tested with an analysis of variance (ANOVA) with the Tukey-Kramer post-hoc test. Means with different scripts are different from each other (P < 0.05)