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