Table 5.
Difficulties in provider-patient communication (n = 606)a
| Total | Medical doctor (n = 152) | Nurse (n = 91) | Conventional health care provider with dual training (n = 47) | Complementary therapists (n = 316) | p-value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | ||
| How comfortable are you to answer question about CT? | .000b | ||||||||||
| Not at all | 32 | (6.9) | 16 | (11.3) | 8 | (11.8) | 1 | (3.3) | 7 | (3.2) | |
| Moderately | 219 | (47.4) | 103 | (72.5) | 48 | (70.6) | 11 | (36.7) | 57 | (25.7) | |
| Very | 211 | (45.7) | 23 | (16.2) | 12 | (17.6) | 18 | (60.0) | 158 | (71.2) | |
| How comfortable are you to answer question about conventional cancer treatment? | .000b | ||||||||||
| Not at all | 34 | (7.4) | 4 | (2.8) | 1 | (1.4) | 1 | (3.3) | 28 | (12.7) | |
| Moderately | 210 | (45.5) | 60 | (42.0) | 20 | (29.0) | 14 | (46.7) | 116 | (52.7) | |
| Very | 218 | (47.2) | 79 | (55.2) | 48 | (69.6) | 15 | (50.0) | 76 | (34.5) | |
| How difficult do you find patients using CT? | .000b | ||||||||||
| Not at all | 250 | (63.3) | 52 | (38.5) | 33 | (57.9) | 20 | (80.0) | 145 | (81.5) | |
| Moderately | 137 | (34.7) | 81 | (60.0) | 24 | (42.1) | 4 | (16.0) | 28 | (15.7) | |
| Very | 8 | (2.0) | 2 | (1.5) | 0 | (0.0) | 1 | (4.0) | 5 | (2.8) | |
| How difficult do you find patients using conventional medicine? | .000b | ||||||||||
| Not at all | 318 | (79.1) | 83 | (62.9) | 44 | (78.6) | 21 | (84.0) | 170 | (91.9) | |
| Moderately | 75 | (18.8) | 48 | (36.4) | 12 | (21.4) | 3 | (12.0) | 12 | (6.5) | |
| Very | 5 | (1.3) | 1 | (0.8) | 0 | (0.0) | 1 | (4.0) | 3 | (1.6) | |
aDue to missing responses the sum does not always add up to the total number of 606
bFisher’s exact test