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Knowledge of, Experience with, Expectations about, and Willingness to Try Five CAM Therapies* |
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| Acupuncture (N = 249) |
Chiropractic (N = 249) |
Massage (N = 249) |
Meditation (N = 249) |
T'ai Chi (N = 249) |
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| Knowledge about Therapy (%) |
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| 1 – 2 (1="no knowledge") |
69 |
44 |
52 |
72 |
91 |
| 3 |
17 |
22 |
24 |
15 |
6 |
| 4 – 5 (5="a lot of knowledge") |
14 |
34 |
24 |
13 |
3 |
| Ever tried therapy (%) |
18 |
54 |
38 |
27 |
8 |
| Ever tried therapy for LBP (%) |
11 |
45 |
24 |
7 |
0.4 |
| Median helpfulness for LBP among prior users (0 to 10 scale) |
5 |
6 |
7 |
5 |
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| Pain or harm reported by prior users (%) |
13 |
23 |
13 |
5 |
16 |
| Median expectation of helpfulness for current LBP (0 to 10 scale) |
5 |
5 |
7 |
3 |
5 |
| Did not provide expectation rating (%) |
25 |
10 |
9 |
12 |
24 |
| High expectations of helpfulness for current LBP (7 to 10 on 0 to 10 scale) (%) |
19 |
28 |
48 |
15 |
16 |
| Very likely to try therapy if primary care provider thought reasonable and no extra cost (%) |
64 |
51 |
69 |
27 |
41 |
| Very likely to try therapy if primary care provider thought reasonable and $10 co-pay (%) |
51 |
42 |
56 |
NA |
NA |
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NA = Not Asked. * Each column refers to a specific therapy and the specific question about the therapy is shown in the first column. ** Only 1 person had tried t'ai chi for low back pain previously. All variables, except expectations of helpfulness of current LBP (where % are given in the table) have missing values for < 5% of respondents. | |||||
Sherman et al. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004 4:9 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-4-9 |
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