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. 2021 Apr 8;21:113. doi: 10.1186/s12906-021-03281-7

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