Table 2.
Knowledge toward the use of traditional Chinese medicine
| Variables | Traditional Chinese medicine |
P value | Effect size# | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correct, n (%) | Wrong, n (%) | |||
| Gender | ||||
| Male | 137 (75.3) | 45 (24.7) | 0.024** | 0.112 |
| Female | 192 (84.2) | 36 (15.8) | ||
| Education level | ||||
| No formal education | 2 (33.3) | 4 (66.7) | ||
| Primary | 3 (75.0) | 1 (25.0) | 0.002 | 0.205 |
| Secondary | 48 (70.6) | 20 (29.4) | ||
| Undergraduate | 243 (81.8) | 54 (18.2) | ||
| Postgraduate | 33 (94.3) | 2 (5.7) | ||
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Malay | 82 (75.9) | 26 (24.1) | ||
| Chinese | 161 (89.9) | 18 (10.1) | <0.001* | 0.323 |
| Indian | 56 (60) | 37 (39.8) | ||
| Others | 30 (100) | 0 (0.0) | ||
| Family income | ||||
| ≤2000 | 72 (60.0) | 48 (40.0) | <0.001 | 0.394 |
| 2001–4000 | 70 (73.7) | 25 (26.3) | ||
| ≥4001 | 187 (95.9) | 8 (19.8) | ||
| Religion | ||||
| Islam | 48 (44.4) | 26 (24.1) | ||
| Buddhism | 119 (87.5) | 12 (8.8) | <0.001 | 0.366 |
| Hinduism | 38 (45.8) | 33 (39.8) | ||
| Christianity | 50 (61.7) | 8 (9.9) | ||
| Others | 2 (100) | 2 (100.0) | ||
**Fisher’s exact test, *Chi-square test, #Phi-Cramer’s value