Table 2.

Trust in KM and Western medicine in 2014

Characteristics	KM trust (%)				Western medicine trust (%)
	Trust	Neutral	Distrust	P-value	Trust	Neutral	Distrust	P-value
(Average)	(59.4)	(34.6)	(6.0)		(75.6)	(22.0)	(2.4)
Gender				0.133				0.907
Male	57.0	35.7	7.2		75.7	21.7	2.6
Female	61.8	33.5	4.8		75.5	22.3	2.2
Age (yr)				<0.001				0.439
20–29	53.2	38.4	8.4		74.2	23.2	2.6
30–39	51.4	40.1	8.6		76.6	21.6	1.8
40–49	60.6	34.3	5.1		74.2	22.9	3.0
50–59	67.4	28.5	4.1		76.5	21.7	1.8
60–69	66.4	30.5	3.1		77.1	19.8	3.1
Region of residence				0.730				0.440
Seoul	59.1	33.8	7.1		76.2	21.4	2.4
Daejeon	61.0	31.2	7.8		74.0	24.7	1.3
Daegu	57.8	35.2	7.0		74.2	21.1	4.7
Busan	62.9	34.9	2.2		74.2	23.7	2.2
Gwangju	53.5	42.3	4.2		78.9	21.1	0.0
KM trust								<0.001
Trust					87.0	11.8	1.2
Neutral					57.8	39.9	2.3
Distrust					65.0	20.0	15.0
Western medicine trust				<0.001
Trust	68.4	26.5	5.2
Neutral	31.8	62.7	5.5
Distrust	29.2	33.3	37.5

Averages are represented as (n). The values represent percentages of participants. A comparison with the 2011 data is provided in Table 1 of Additional file 3