Alternative or complementary attitudes toward alternative and complementary medicines

Berna, Fabrice; Göritz, Anja S.; Mengin, Amaury; Evrard, Renaud; Kopferschmitt, Jacques; Moritz, Steffen

doi:10.1186/s12906-019-2490-z

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Table 5 Univariate and multivariate analyses of the factors influencing preference for treatment

From: Alternative or complementary attitudes toward alternative and complementary medicines

		Univariate analyses					Multivariate analyses
Conditions A1 to A4				credible interval					credible interval
categorical variables	Comparisons	M	SD	2.5%	97.5%	Pr(OR > 1)	M	SD	2.5%	97.5%	Pr(OR > 1)
frequency	W vs. C	0.992	0.086	0.837	1.175	0.461	0.944	0.083	0.795	1.122	0.254
(high = 1, low = 2)	W vs. S	1.157	0.076	1.017	1.315	0.987	1.088	0.071	0.957	1.236	0.901
(high = 1, low = 2)	W vs. A	1.352	0.147	1.096	1.671	0.997	1.091	0.130	0.866	1.374	0.769
intensity of symptoms	W vs. C	0.985	0.086	0.830	1.166	0.429	0.917	0.082	0.770	1.091	0.164
(high = 1, low = 2)	W vs. S	1.263	0.084	1.108	1.437	> 0.999	1.168	0.078	1.026	1.330	0.990
(high = 1, low = 2)	W vs. A	1.368	0.149	1.108	1.691	0.998	1.121	0.135	0.890	1.416	0.832
type of illness	W vs. C	0.803	0.070	0.678	0.952	0.006	0.838	0.080	0.696	1.008	0.031
(mental = 1, somatic = 2)	W vs. S	1.132	0.075	0.995	1.288	0.970	1.029	0.073	0.896	1.180	0.657
(mental = 1, somatic = 2)	W vs. A	0.647	0.071	0.523	0.801	< 0.001	0.674	0.086	0.527	0.863	0.001
linear variables	Comparisons	M	SD	2.5%	97.5%	Pr(Beta> 0)	M	SD	2.5%	97.5%	Pr(Beta> 0)
age	W vs. C	−0.024	0.009	−0.041	−0.006	0.003	− 0.016	0.006	− 0.029	− 0.003	0.007
	W vs. S	− 0.010	0.009	−0.027	0.007	0.129	0.002	0.006	−0.009	0.013	0.654
	W vs. A	− 0.029	0.009	− 0.047	− 0.011	0.001	− 0.026	0.007	− 0.041	− 0.012	< 0.001
distress	W vs. C	−0.105	0.037	−0.177	− 0.031	0.003	−0.171	0.040	−0.250	− 0.091	< 0.001
	W vs. S	−0.111	0.031	−0.172	−0.050	< 0.001	−0.079	0.032	−0.143	− 0.016	0.007
	W vs. A	−0.571	0.044	−0.658	−0.486	< 0.001	−0.518	0.049	−0.615	− 0.422	< 0.001
treatability	W vs. C	0.147	0.071	0.010	0.286	0.982	0.138	0.069	0.003	0.274	0.977
	W vs. S	−0.002	0.057	−0.114	0.111	0.488	−0.084	0.054	−0.191	0.022	0.060
	W vs. A	−1.338	0.084	−1.501	−1.177	< 0.001	−1.266	0.082	−1.427	−1.106	< 0.001
social stigma	W vs. C	0.151	0.053	0.049	0.254	0.998	0.141	0.060	0.023	0.260	0.991
	W vs. S	−0.171	0.043	−0.255	−0.087	< 0.001	−0.137	0.047	−0.230	−0.044	0.002
	W vs. A	−0.268	0.064	−0.394	−0.143	< 0.001	−0.106	0.079	−0.261	0.049	0.090
belief in efficacy	W vs. C	−0.033	0.083	−0.197	0.131	0.347
of complementary	W vs. S	−0.019	0.073	−0.163	0.123	0.395
treatments	W vs. A	0.104	0.094	−0.081	0.289	0.865
belief in efficacy	W vs. C	−0.031	0.078	−0.182	0.121	0.344
of conventional	W vs. S	0.052	0.066	−0.077	0.181	0.784
treatments	W vs. A	−0.079	0.090	−0.254	0.098	0.189
Conditions B1 to B4		Univariate analyses					Multivariate analyses
categorical variables	Comparisons	M	SD	2.5%	97.5%	Pr(OR > 1)	M	SD	2.5%	97.5%	Pr(OR > 1)
name of illness	W vs. C	1.006	0.134	0.779	1.303	0.518	1.008	0.133	0.781	1.301	0.524
(absent = 1. present = 2)	W vs. S	0.702	0.068	0.582	0.847	< 0.001	0.741	0.066	0.623	0.881	< 0.001
	W vs. A	0.806	0.167	0.542	1.193	0.142	0.790	0.173	0.519	1.195	0.133

Note: Comparisons: W=Weak complementary (reference category), C = strictly Conventional, S=Strong complementary, A = Alternative
Results are presented as OR or Beta with a 95% CI, with the probability of the OR being above 1, Pr(OR > 1) or the Beta being above 0, Pr(Beta> 0)
Large Pr(OR > 1) or Pr(Beta> 0) values (e.g., > 0.95, or 0.99) indicate higher values for category 2 vs category 1 (see code of categorical variables). Conversely, small Pr(OR > 1) or Pr(Beta> 0) values (e.g., < 0.05, or 0.01), reflect higher category 1 vs category 2. Moreover, the probabilities Pr(OR > 1) or Pr(Beta> 0) can be interpreted as 1 - Pr(OR > 1) or as 1 – Pr(Beta< 0), respectively. Thus, probability values near 1 and 0 both indicate meaningful effects and are indicated in bold
Conditions A1 to A1 examined the influence of illness severity (in terms of frequency of relapse and intensity of symptoms)
Conditions B1 to B4 examined the influence of adding or not the name of illness in the clinical vignettes (comparing only the vignettes of illness with the highest degree of severity). Results of the uni- and multivariate analyses are not reported here and provided similar results as in Conditions A1 to A4

Back to article page

ISSN: 2662-7671

Contact us

Submission enquiries: bmccomplementarymedicineandtherapies@biomedcentral.com
General enquiries: ORSupport@springernature.com