Latent class analysis suggests four distinct classes of complementary medicine users among women with breast cancer

Table 4 Use of CAM modalities since breast cancer diagnosis, conditional on latent class membership^a

	Low-dose supplement users (39.6 %)		Vitamin/mineral supplement users (39.3 %)		Mind-body medicine users (11.9 %)		Multi-modality high-dose users (9.1 %)
	Low dose	High dose	Low dose	High dose	Low dose	High dose	Low dose	High dose
Vitamin/mineral supplements	0.59	0.19	0.34	0.63	0.52	0.41	0.19	0.81
Echinacea	0.00	0.00	0.11	0.07	0.17	0.05	0.19	0.30
Green tea	0.02	0.00	0.22	0.13	0.22	0.01	0.30	0.33
Other herbs	0.02	0.00	0.15	0.11	0.24	0.04	0.16	0.55
Natural products	0.03	0.01	0.15	0.13	0.28	0.00	0.11	0.58
Mind-body techniques	0.07	0.08	0.18	0.19	0.66	0.33	0.29	0.62
Diet change	0.16	0.02	0.22	0.17	0.15	0.19	0.12	0.54
Massage	0.02	0.00	0.03	0.02	0.60	0.13	0.37	0.18
Chiropractic	0.04	0.04	0.12	0.08	0.14	0.11	0.13	0.33
Other practitioner-based CAM	0.01	0.00	0.08	0.04	0.08	0.10	0.28	0.26

^aProbabilities of class membership identified through latent class analysis. Number of classes determined based on model stability, fit statistics, and interpretability of latent classes
Abbreviation: CAM, complementary and alternative medicine

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