Table 2.
Visit by Healthcare providers in the last year
| health care providers | Visiteda (%) |
Motivationb (%)c |
Helpfulness (%)c | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acute illness | Long-term illness | Improvement of well-being | Very | somewhat | Not at all | Don’t know | ||
| Family practitioner | 664 (37.51) | 466 (70.18) | 158 (23.79) | 34 (5.12) | 313 (47.13) | 303 (45.63) | 45 (6.77) | 3 (0.45) |
| General Physician | 518 (29.26) | 381 (73.55) | 124 23.93 | 19 (3.66) | 218 (42.08) | 285 (55.01) | 15 (2.89) | 0 (0.00) |
| Specialist Physician | 670 (37.85) | 191 (28.50) | 419 (62.53) | 14 (2.08) | 302 (45.07) | 330 (49.25) | 11 (1.64) | 2 (0.29) |
| Nutritionist | 19 (1.07) | 6 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| Traditional medicine healer | 67 (3.78) | 19 (28.35) | 33 (49.25) | 17 (25.37) | 21 (31.34) | 30 (44.77) | 13 (19.40) | 3 (4.4) |
| Acupuncturist | 9 (0.50) | 2 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Bone setter | 14 (0.79) | 13 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Massage practitioner | 14 (0.79) | 1 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Other | 9 (0.50) | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
aPercentages are calculated relative to the total sample population (Column percentage)
bPercentages are calculated according to the type of health care provider (Row Percentage)
cPercentages have been reported only for cases that have used more than 20