Table 3.

Factors related to the parallel use of CAM and CM in chronic disease patients.

		B	Odds ratio	95% Wald confidence intervals Exp (B)
				Lower	Upper
Intercept		–0.008
Sex	Female (ref)
	Male	–1.194*	0.326	0.179	0.597
Age (y)	20–39 (ref)
	40–59	1.522*	4.583	1.923	10.920
	60+	1.225†	3.403	1.145	10.114
Marriage	Married (ref)
	Unmarried	−1.337*	0.263	0.132	0.524
Education	<High school (ref)
	High-school graduate	0.578	1.783	0.778	4.084
Work	Unemployed (ref)
	Employed	0.157	1.170	0.585	2.342
Religion	No (ref)
	Yes	0.445	1.567	0.863	2.846
Concern for health	Low (1,2) (ref)
	Middle (3)	1.057‡	2.877	1.230	6.725
	High (4,5)	0.783†	2.189	1.116	4.294
Chronic disease	Without cerebrovascular disease (ref)
	Cerebrovascular disease	0.253	1.288	0.578	2.867
	Without diabetes (ref)
	Diabetes	−1.089*	0.338	0.171	0.668
	Without hypertension (ref)
	Hypertension	0.937‡	2.552	1.171	5.563
	Without articular disease (ref)
	Articular disease	1.060*	2.886	1.484	5.611
−2 Log L		Intercept only		Intercept and covariates
435.257		341.686
Scores		Chi-square		df
92.617*		13
C-statistics		0.796

CM, conventional medicine; CAM, complementary and alternative medicine.

^*p < 0.001.

^†p < 0.05.

^‡p < 0.01.