Table 1.
Demographic Characteristics of Study Respondents
| Demographic characteristic | No. (%) |
p-Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total (N=45) | California (n=20) | Non-California (n=25) | ||
| Gendera | 0.02 | |||
| Male | 29 (66) | 9 (45) | 20 (83) | |
| Female | 13 (30) | 9 (45) | 4 (17) | |
| Neither/both | 2 (5) | 2 (10) | 0 (0) | |
| Professional qualifications | >0.99 | |||
| Allopathic physician | 43 (96) | 19 (95) | 24 (96) | |
| Osteopathic physician | 2 (4) | 1 (5) | 1 (4) | |
| State licensed to practice cannabinoid medicine | ||||
| California | 20 (44) | NA | NA | |
| Not California | 25 (56) | NA | NA | |
| Board-certified specialtyb,c | ||||
| Family medicine | 10 (29) | 6 (30) | 4 (16) | 0.30 |
| Emergency medicine | 6 (17) | 3 (15) | 3 (12) | >0.99 |
| Internal medicine | 5 (14) | 3 (15) | 2 (8) | 0.64 |
| Pediatrics | 2 (6) | 1 (5) | 1 (4) | >0.99 |
| Oncology | 2 (6) | 1 (5) | 1 (4) | >0.99 |
| Pain medicine | 2 (6) | 1 (5) | 1 (4) | >0.99 |
| Psychiatry | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 1 (4) | >0.99 |
| Obstetrics/gynecology | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 1 (4) | >0.99 |
| Other | 14 (40) | 5 (25) | 9 (36) | 0.76 |
a
N=44 because 1 respondent from outside California did not indicate gender.
b
N=35 because 10 participants did not indicate a specialty.
c
Individual physicians could be board certified in more than one specialty.
NA, not applicable.