An Overview of the Practitioner Research and Collaboration Initiative (PRACI): a practice-based research network for complementary medicine

Table 1 Characteristics of PRACI members compared with workforce survey respondents that did not join PRACI (n = 1264)

	non-PRACI members (n = 500)		PRACI members (n = 764)		p value
Characteristics	Mean (± SE)	Confidence interval	Mean (± SE)	Confidence interval	p value
Age (Mean ± SE)	47.9 ± 0.5	46.9–48.9	47.8 ± 0.4	46.9–48.6	0.26
Characteristics	Frequency	Percentage	Frequency	Percentage
Gender
Female	393	78.6%	581	76.2%	0.26
Male	107	21.4%	182	23.9%	0.26
State/Territory^a
Australian Capital Territory	7	1.4%	10	1.3%	0.76
New South Wales	65	13.0%	174	22.8%	0.14
Northern Territory	6	1.2%	4	0.5%	0.08
Queensland	96	19.2%	188	24.6%	0.83
South Australia	26	5.2%	44	5.8%	0.41
Tasmania	10	2.0%	21	2.8%	0.99
Victoria	121	24.2%	265	34.7%	0.65
Western Australia	46	9.2%	66	8.6%	0.08
Virtual	5	1.0%	10	1.3%	0.62
Location^a
Urban	404	80.8%	630	82.5%	0.71
Rural	120	24.0%	179	23.4%	0.56
Remote	8	1.6%	17	2.2%	0.43
Very Remote	6	0.6%	5	0.7%	0.76
Years since first qualification
Less than 5 years	81	16.2%	147	19.2%	0.31
5 to 9 years	75	15.0%	117	15.3%
10 to 14 years	95	19.0%	153	20%
15 to 19 years	136	27.2%	175	22.9%
20 years or more	113	22.6%	172	22.5%

^aThese figures may equal more than 100% as participants may have a practice in more than one locality

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