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. 2017 Mar 8;17:144. doi: 10.1186/s12906-017-1654-y

Table 6.

Correlation between reported knowledge of CAM and knowledge of specific CAM therapies/methods)

Health care provider CAM method
Herbal
r (p)
Spiritual
r (p)
Alternative
r (p)
Physical
r (p)
Energy
r (p)
Therapeutic
r (p)
Doctors (n = 77) 0.481 (≤0.001) 0.587 (≤0.001) 0.618 (≤0.001) 0.518 (≤0.001) 0.482 (≤0.001) 0.507 (≤0.001)
Nurses (n = 172) 0.199 (≤0.001) 0.181 (0.291) 0.244 (≤0.001) 0.180 (0.018) 0.215 (0.008) 0.195 (0.010)
Pharmacists (n = 30) 0.129 (0.496) 0.163 (0.389) 0.247 (0.188) 0.345 (0.062) 0.179 (0.343) 0.174 (0.359)
Others (n = 83) 0.424 (≤0.001) 0.385 (≤0.001) 0.359 (0.001) 0.392 (≤0.001) 0.431 (≤0.001) 0.451 (≤0.001)

CAM complementary and alternative medicine