Table 3 |
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Demographic, socioeconomic and health related characteristics among Chinese medical services and OTC medication users |
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Visited Chinese medicine practitioners only (%) |
Used Chinese OTC medications only (%) |
Consulted Chinese medicine practitioners and used Chinese OTC medications (%) |
p-valuea |
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Gender |
Male |
19.9 |
61.9 |
18.2 |
p < 0.001 |
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Female |
23.9 |
51.7 |
24.4 |
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Age |
15-29 |
26.9 |
57.3 |
15.8 |
p < 0.001 |
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30-39 |
29.4 |
50.8 |
19.7 |
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40-49 |
24.1 |
52.4 |
23.5 |
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50-59 |
21.9 |
56.0 |
22.2 |
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60-69 |
16.5 |
57.6 |
25.9 |
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70+ |
12.7 |
66.1 |
21.3 |
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Education level |
Below primary |
12.8 |
66.2 |
21.1 |
p < 0.001 |
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Primary |
18.5 |
56.8 |
24.7 |
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Secondary |
22.8 |
56.5 |
20.6 |
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Tertiary |
34.1 |
44.6 |
21.2 |
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Currently married |
Yes |
22.1 |
55.5 |
22.4 |
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No |
22.2 |
57.5 |
20.3 |
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Self reported health |
Excellent or very good |
23.8 |
59.2 |
17.1 |
p < 0.001 |
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Good or fair |
22.0 |
55.8 |
22.2 |
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poor |
22.0 |
55.4 |
22.6 |
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Self reported chronic disease status |
Yes |
17.3 |
57.8 |
24.9 |
p < 0.001 |
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No |
23.8 |
55.5 |
20.6 |
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Drinking habit |
Yes |
22.6 |
55.6 |
21.8 |
p < 0.001 |
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No |
22.1 |
56.2 |
21.7 |
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Current smoker |
Yes |
18.5 |
62.1 |
19.4 |
p < 0.001 |
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No |
22.9 |
54.9 |
22.2 |
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Moderate exercise >= 2.5 hours/week |
Yes |
23.2 |
54.3 |
22.5 |
p < 0.001 |
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No |
21.7 |
56.9 |
21.4 |
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Possession of western medicine insurance |
Yes |
30.5 |
48.8 |
20.8 |
p < 0.001 |
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No |
19.7 |
58.3 |
22.0 |
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Possession of Chinese medicine insurance |
Yes |
38.6 |
36.1 |
25.4 |
p < 0.001 |
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No |
20.8 |
57.7 |
21.4 |
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Total |
22.2 |
56.1 |
21.7 |
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Mean personal monthly income in Hong Kong dollarsb (Standard Error) |
$12060 ($350.59) |
$8180 ($151.10) |
$9305 ($306.72) |
p < 0.001 |
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a: All from Chi square test for independence except for mean personal monthly income, in which one way ANOVA were used b: HKD$ 7.8 = USD$ 1.0 |
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Chi Ho Chung et al. Chinese Medicine 2010 5:41 doi:10.1186/1749-8546-5-41 |
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