Table 3.
Knowledge Regarding Qualified Conditions for Medical Cannabis Among Health Care Providers in Washington State, 2018 (N=310)
| Condition | Qualified condition | Correctly identified |
Incorrectly identified |
Don't know/missing |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| Cancer | Yes | 289 | 93.2 | 6 | 1.9 | 15 | 4.8 |
| Intractable paina | Yes | 248 | 80.0 | 16 | 5.2 | 46 | 14.8 |
| Nauseab | Yes | 239 | 77.1 | 22 | 7.1 | 49 | 15.8 |
| Crohn's diseasec | Yes | 237 | 76.5 | 19 | 6.1 | 54 | 17.4 |
| Glaucomad | Yes | 215 | 69.4 | 28 | 9.0 | 67 | 21.6 |
| Hepatitis Ce | Yes | 201 | 64.8 | 35 | 11.3 | 74 | 23.9 |
| Epilepsy or other seizure disorder | Yes | 195 | 62.9 | 40 | 12.9 | 75 | 24.2 |
| Depression | No | 165 | 53.2 | 54 | 17.4 | 91 | 29.4 |
| HIV | Yes | 156 | 50.3 | 55 | 17.7 | 99 | 31.9 |
| Spasticity disorders | Yes | 154 | 49.7 | 45 | 14.5 | 111 | 35.8 |
| Multiple sclerosis | Yes | 151 | 48.7 | 44 | 14.2 | 115 | 37.1 |
| Anxiety | No | 130 | 41.9 | 106 | 34.2 | 74 | 23.9 |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder | Yes | 118 | 38.1 | 78 | 25.2 | 114 | 36.8 |
| Traumatic brain injury | Yes | 90 | 29.0 | 83 | 26.8 | 137 | 44.2 |
| Lupus | No | 81 | 26.1 | 83 | 26.8 | 146 | 47.1 |
| Tourette's syndrome | No | 78 | 25.2 | 79 | 25.5 | 153 | 49.4 |
| Rheumatoid arthritis | No | 73 | 23.5 | 117 | 37.7 | 120 | 38.7 |
| Neurofibromatosis | No | 66 | 21.3 | 102 | 32.9 | 142 | 45.8 |
| Parkinson's disease | No | 64 | 20.6 | 128 | 41.3 | 118 | 38.1 |
Intractable pain unrelieved by standard medical treatments and medications.
Diseases, including anorexia, which result in nausea, vomiting, wasting, appetite loss, cramping, seizures, muscle spasms, or spasticity, when these symptoms are unrelieved by standard treatments or medications.
Crohn's disease with debilitating symptoms unrelieved by standard treatments or medications.
Glaucoma either acute or chronic, with increased intraocular pressure unrelieved by standard treatments and medications.
Hepatitis C with debilitating nausea or intractable pain unrelieved by standard treatments or medications.