Table 1 Age, lifestyle behaviours and professional characteristics of participants by gender*
Males (N = 1087) | Females (N = 397) | Total (N = 1484) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Age and lifestyle behaviours | ||||||
Age | ||||||
< 54 | 743 | 69.4 | 368 | 93.9 | 1111 | 76.0 |
≥ 54 | 327 | 30.6 | 24 | 6.1 | 351 | 24.0 |
Current smoking | ||||||
no | 754 | 78.4 | 277 | 74.7 | 1031 | 77.3 |
yes | 208 | 21.6 | 94 | 25.3 | 302 | 22.7 |
Physical activity in the past year | ||||||
no | 108 | 11.4 | 65 | 17.9 | 173 | 13.2 |
yes | 843 | 88.6 | 299 | 82.1 | 1142 | 86.8 |
Vegetarian/macrobiotic diet | ||||||
no | 946 | 98.1 | 359 | 97.3 | 1305 | 97.9 |
yes | 18 | 1.9 | 10 | 2.7 | 28 | 2.1 |
Professional characteristics | ||||||
Post-graduate specialisation | ||||||
no | 410 | 37.9 | 112 | 28.3 | 522 | 35.4 |
yes | 671 | 62.1 | 283 | 71.6 | 954 | 64.6 |
Certificated training in CAM | ||||||
no | 957 | 89.1 | 336 | 85.1 | 1293 | 88.0 |
yes | 117 | 10.9 | 59 | 14.9 | 176 | 12.0 |
Interest in CAM training° | ||||||
no | 571 | 60.0 | 138 | 41.7 | 709 | 55.3 |
yes | 252 | 26.5 | 140 | 42.3 | 392 | 30.5 |
don't know | 129 | 13.5 | 53 | 16.0 | 182 | 14.2 |
No. of inhabitants in area of practice | ||||||
≤ 10.000 | 234 | 21.6 | 96 | 24.2 | 330 | 22.3 |
10.001 – 50.000 | 371 | 34.3 | 144 | 36.4 | 515 | 34.8 |
> 50.000 | 477 | 44.1 | 156 | 39.4 | 633 | 42.8 |