Table 3.
Medical care visit of TCM for people with and without purchasing CHM
| Purchase of CHM | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No (N = 15,889) | Yes (N = 867) | Multivariate | |||||
| n | (%) | n | (%) | p-value | OR | (95%CI)a | |
| Use of TCM in past year | |||||||
| No | 11,952 | (95.1) | 610 | (4.9) | 0.0070 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Yes | 3937 | (93.9) | 257 | (6.1) | 1.26 | (1.08–1.47) | |
| Use of TCM in past year | |||||||
| No | 11,952 | (95.1) | 610 | (4.9) | 0.0071 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| 1 times | 1192 | (94.2) | 73 | (5.8) | 1.26 | (0.98–1.63) | |
| 2 times | 673 | (94.5) | 39 | (5.5) | 1.13 | (0.81–1.59) | |
| ≥ 3 times | 2072 | (93.5) | 145 | (6.5) | 1.29 | (1.07–1.56) | |
| Use of folk therapy | |||||||
| No | 14,872 | (95.2) | 743 | (4.8) | <0.0001 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Yes | 1012 | (89.2) | 123 | (10.8) | 2.23 | (1.82–2.74) | |
| Visits of TCM in past year | |||||||
| No | 11,952 | (95.1) | 610 | (4.9) | 0.0073 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Low | 1865 | (94.3) | 112 | (5.7) | 1.22 | (0.98–1.50) | |
| Moderate | 1119 | (93.4) | 79 | (6.6) | 1.35 | (1.06–1.73) | |
| High | 953 | (93.5) | 66 | (6.5) | 1.23 | (0.94–1.60) | |
| Expenditure of TCM in past year | |||||||
| No | 11,952 | (95.1) | 610 | (4.9) | 0.0152 | 1.00 | (reference) |
| Low | 1276 | (94.2) | 78 | (5.8) | 1.25 | (0.97–1.59) | |
| Moderate | 1320 | (93.7) | 89 | (6.3) | 1.31 | (1.04–1.66) | |
| High | 1339 | (93.8) | 89 | (6.2) | 1.20 | (0.95–1.52) | |
CHM Chinese herbal medicine, TCM traditional Chinese medicine
aAdjusted for age, gender, education, ethnicity, density of TCM physicians, and medical care in the past 6 months in the multivariate logistic regression