. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 30.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2014 Nov;25(4):1941–1955. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2014.0178

Table 4.

PERCEPTIONS TOWARD CAM USE AMONG CAM USERS^*

	Non-Hispanic White	Mexican American	Vietnamese American	F	p-value
Perceptions toward CAM use: Practitioners, % who endorsed item
	N=14	N=12	N=32
More affordable	16.7	28.5	11.1	0.6	0.57
More natural	92.3	85.7	65.0	2.9	0.07
Safer	61.5	19.7	36.8	1.3	0.29
Fewer side effects	84.6	33.9	52.6	2.5	0.09
Closer to cultural tradition	15.4^a	66.7^b	73.7^b	7.9	0.002
Perceptions toward CAM use: Herbs and Supplements, % who endorsed item
	N=34	N=74	N=66
More affordable	39.0	55.0	20.4	1.8	0.17
More natural	67.0	72.4	78.0	0.3	0.77
Safer	63.4	49.6	53.9	0.6	0.57
Fewer side effects	72.2	45.2	57.4	2.7	0.07
Closer to cultural tradition	15.3^a	30.9^a	84.5^b	13.9	<.001

Superscripts that differ in the same row (a, b) indicate values are significantly different from one another (p<.05)