Table 4 Percentage of treatment options and rating scores associated with each treatment option
From: Alternative or complementary attitudes toward alternative and complementary medicines
Categorical variables (% per raws) | Strictly conventional (C) | Weak complementary (W) | Strong complementary (S) | Alternative | |
frequency of relapse | high | 9.45 | 64.24 | 21.44 | 4.87 |
low | 9.40 | 60.96 | 23.30 | 6.34 | |
intensity of symptoms | high | 9.48 | 64.79 | 20.88 | 4.84 |
low | 9.37 | 60.40 | 23.86 | 6.37 | |
type of illness | mental | 10.23 | 61.54 | 21.58 | 6.65 |
somatic | 8.62 | 63.65 | 23.16 | 4.56 | |
education level | <  9 years | 10.61 | 62.21 | 23.26 | 3.92 |
O level | 8.44 | 62.42 | 24.51 | 4.63 | |
A level | 9.28 | 61.50 | 22.17 | 7.06 | |
University and above | 10.25 | 63.78 | 19.96 | 6.01 | |
employment status | working | 8.85 | 62.85 | 22.87 | 5.43 |
pupil / student | 12.90 | 54.26 | 23.94 | 8.91 | |
retired | 9.40 | 65.27 | 18.69 | 6.64 | |
unemployed | 5.77 | 71.39 | 21.63 | 1.20 | |
other | 12.50 | 60.74 | 22.66 | 4.10 | |
Linear variables | Strictly conventional (C) | Weak complementary (W) | Strong complementary (S) | Alternative | |
distress | M | 5.19 | 5.50 | 5.18 | 4.39 |
(range 1–7) | SD | (1.30) | (1.25) | (1.36) | (1.49) |
treatability | M | 2.85 | 2.92 | 2.78 | 2.14 |
(range 1–5) | SD | (0.73) | (0.67) | (0.69) | (0.75) |
social stigma | M | 2.44 | 2.38 | 2.25 | 2.15 |
(range 1–5) | SD | (0.92) | (0.90) | (0.93) | (0.89) |
belief in efficacy of | M | 1.63 | 2.04 | 2.48 | 2.40 |
complementary treatments (range 1–5) | SD | (0.67) | (0.66) | (0.66) | (0.86) |
belief in efficacy of | M | 3.12 | 3.27 | 3.01 | 2.32 |
conventional treatments (range 1–5) | SD | (0.74) | (0.61) | (0.67) | (0.92) |