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Table 5 Frequency of visits to KM clinics over the past 12 months in 2014

From: Changes in trust and the use of Korean medicine in South Korea: a comparison of surveys in 2011 and 2014

Category

Non-user (%)

User (%)

P-value

Total

No. of KM visits

1–4

5–9

≥10

(Average)

(36.8)

(63.2)

(48.9)

(7.9)

(6.4)

0.024

Gender

 Male

39.8

60.2

48.8

7.0

4.4

 

 Female

33.9

66.1

49.0

8.8

8.4

 

Age (yr)

     

0.089

 20–29

42.1

57.9

47.4

6.3

4.2

 

 30–39

42.3

57.7

44.1

7.2

6.3

 

 40–49

37.7

62.3

50.0

8.1

4.2

 

 50–59

29.0

71.0

52.9

9.5

8.6

 

 60–69

31.3

68.7

50.4

8.4

9.9

 

Region of residence

     

0.705

 Seoul

37.7

62.3

48.3

7.4

6.5

 

 Daejeon

33.8

66.2

51.9

7.8

6.5

 

 Daegu

36.7

63.3

53.1

7.0

3.1

 

 Busan

37.1

62.9

45.7

8.1

9.1

 

 Gwangju

32.4

67.6

50.7

12.7

4.2

 

KM trust

     

0.000

 Trust

28.1

71.9

52.9

10.3

8.8

 

 Neutral

47.1

52.9

44.8

4.6

3.5

 

 Distrust

63.3

36.7

33.3

3.3

0.0

 

Western medicine trust

     

0.586

 Trust

35.6

64.4

50.3

7.8

6.3

 

 Neutral

41.8

58.2

43.2

8.2

6.8

 

 Distrust

29.2

70.8

58.3

8.3

4.2

 
  1. Averages are represented as (n). The values represent percentages of participants. A comparison of the corresponding 2011 data is shown in Table 2 of Additional file 3