Table 3.

Characteristics of Patients and Visits by Disclosure Attitude

Characteristic	Disclosure Status		χ2 a	p	ES
	Patient tells PCP about use of MT N=202	Patient does not tell PCP about use of MT N=197
Gender			.16	.920	.00
Female	50.3	49.7
Male	50.4	49.6
Patient Type			19.2	<.001	.22
New Patient	31.7	68.3
Established Patient	56.5	43.5
Reason for Massage			9.19	.002	.15
General Massage	40.3	59.7
Massage for Specific
Reason	56.2	43.8
Does the practice use medical release forms?			17.8	<.001	.26
YES	68.1	31.9
NO	39.3	60.7
Did patient indicate it would be easier to talk to PCP if they had information about the benefits of massage therapy?			.756	.385	.05
YES	35.2	64.8
NO	41.5	58.5
Did a health-care provider recommend patient for today’s massage?			52.5	<.001	.36
YES	83.9	16.1
NO	40.9	59.1

^aχ² for tests of independence for categorical variables.

ES = effect size (Cramer’s V for χ² test of independence where magnitude of .10=small, .3=medium, and .5=large); sample size varies due to missing data.