Doctor communication quality and Friends' attitudes influence complementary medicine use in inflammatory bowel disease

Table 3 Attitudinal and behavioural associations of regular complementary and alternative therapy use - univariate analysis n (%)

		Regular CAM use		P value
		No	Yes
Deliberate dose reduction	No	197 (61.4)	124 (38.6)	< 0.001
	Yes	46 (38.7)	73 (61.3)
Family or friends use alternative treatments	No	88 (55.0)	72 (45.0)	0.004
	Yes	85 (40.1)	127 (59.9)
Experienced adverse effects conventional IBD meds	No	89 (59.7)	60 (40.3)	0.025
	Yes	129 (48.3)	138 (51.7)
Satisfied with communication with IBD doctor	No	1 (9.1)	10 (90.9)	0.002
	Yes	246 (55.7)	196 (44.3)
Previous psychological counselling	No	197 (61.6)	123 (38.4)	< 0.001
	Yes	49 (38.0)	80 (62.0)

CAM: Complementary and alternative therapy; IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease.