CAM Therapy	Any CAM Use (During Lifetime)			CAM Use in the Past 12 Months
	No.	%	(95% CI for %)	No.	%	(95% CI for %)
Any use of complementary or alternative medicine	801	51.7%	(49.2-54.2%)	677	43.7%	(41.2-46.2%)
Personal therapies (including home remedies, herbal medicine, homeopathy, or vitamin therapy)	427	27.5%	(25.3-29.9%)	388	25.0%	(22.9-27.3%)
Relaxation techniques (including massage therapy, imagery, or visualization)	399	25.7%	(23.6-28.0%)	348	22.5%	(20.4-24.6%)
Chiropractors	317	20.5%	(18.5-22.6%)	135	8.7%	(7.4-10.2%)
Healing (including healers, spiritual healing, Native American healers, or energy healing)	73	4.6%	(3.7-5.9%)	66	4.2%	(3.3-5.4%)
Commercial weight loss programs	69	4.5%	(3.5-5.6%)	38	2.5%	(1.7-3.4%)
Life-style diets	67	4.3%	(3.4-5.5%)	60	3.9%	(3.0-5.0%)
Self-help groups	41	2.6%	(1.9-3.6%)	33	2.1%	(1.5-3.0%)
Hypnosis or biofeedback	30	1.9%	(1.3-2.8%)	10	0.6%	(0.3-1.2%)

Type of CAM Therapy	No. CAM Users	To Stay Healthy	Why CAM Therapy Was Used To Treat a Specific Health Problem
			Musculoskeletal or Neurologic	Psychosocial	Cardiovascular/ Hormonal/ Metabolic	OB-GYN/ Urogenital	Gastrointestinal	Allergy/ Respiratory	Other
Personal therapies	622	48.4%	10.9%	1.4%	3.5%	5.6%	2.9%	17.7%	9.6%
Relaxation	478	55.9%	22.0%	13.0%	1.3%	1.0%	0.6%	1.0%	5.2%
Chiropractors	332	12.3%	82.6%	1.2%	0.3%	0.3%	1.2%	1.8%	0.3%
Healing	87	59.8%	8.0%	5.7%	3.4%	3.4%	3.4%	2.3%	14.0%
Commercial weight loss programs	82	75.6%	1.2%	1.2%	20.8%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	1.2%
Life-style diet	67	85.1%	3.0%	0.0%	10.4%	0.0%	1.5%	0.0%	0.0%
Self-help	44	40.9%	9.1%	2.3%	2.3%	0.0%	0.0%	2.3%	34.1%
Hypnosis or biofeedback	41	41.5%	4.9%	12.2%	12.2%	0.0%	4.9%	0.0%	14.6%
All other therapies CAM	78	23.1%	26.9%	1.3%	9.0%	10.3%	13.9%	8.9%	6.3%

Demographic Characteristics	No. of Respondents in Demographic Strata	Any CAM Use		CAM Use in the Past 12 Months
		No.	Weighted %	No.	Weighted %
All respondents	1,556	801	51.7%	677	43.7%
Sex		*		†
Male	591	357	49.0%	294	40.3%
Female	965	435	54.8%	378	47.5%
Race		†
Black	345	178	45.9%	158	40.7%
White	1,142	582	54.5%	486	45.5%
Other (Asian, Hispanic, Native    American)	21	NE		NE
Not stated	76
Age		†		†
18-29	290	164	40.1%	146	35.7%
30-45	470	294	58.4%	261	51.0%
46-64	442	206	59.4%	170	48.9%
65 or older	312	114	50.7%	85	37.8%
Not stated	70
Education		†		†
Less than high school	274	115	48.7%	95	40.3%
High school diploma	459	217	46.6%	178	38.2%
Some college	401	250	59.2%	210	49.5%
College graduate	376	195	54.6%	177	49.4%
Not stated	74
Family income				*
Less than $15,000	252	107	52.2%	97	47.3%
$15,000-$29,999	319	176	52.5%	151	45.1%
$30,000-$49,999	330	173	51.2%	140	41.5%
$50,000 and over	328	211	60.1%	187	53.1%
Not stated	355	NE		NE
Marital status		†		†
Married or living as married	850	469	55.2%	392	46.2%
Widowed	201	107	53.2%	86	42.8%
Divorced or separated	215	146	67.9%	129	60.0%
Never married	240	116	48.3%	108	45.0%
Missing	78
Urban or rural county of residence
Urban counties	565	287	51.5%	248	44.4%
Rural counties	991	506	51.8%	423	43.4%

* P value = .01-.05 for chi-square test.

† P value < .01 for chi-square test.

NE = Proportion not estimated.

Type of CAM Therapy	No. of CAM Users	% Reporting CAM as Extremely or Very Effective	% Having "Bad Experience" With CAM Therapy	% Who Would Recommend CAM to Friends/Family
Personal therapies (including home remedies, herbal medicine, homeopathy, or vitamin therapy)	425	62.0%	4.0%	87.8%
Relaxation techniques (including massage therapy, imagery, or visualization)	399	64.1%	2.4%	92.0%
Chiropractors	314	63.1%	7.7%	86.3%
Healing (including healers, spiritual, healing, Native American healers, or energy healing)	73	79.3%	3.2%	89.2%
Commercial weight loss programs	68	44.9%	10.5%	69.4%
Life-style diets	65	72.0%	7.4%	82.3%
Self-help groups	41	73.7%	7.5%	88.2%
Hypnosis or biofeedback	29	59.8%	10.9%	80.7%
Any CAM use	801	63.3%	4.7%	87.7%

Type of CAM Therapy	No. of CAM Users	% Physicians Who Recommended CAM Use	% Patients Who Told Provider of CAM Use	% Physicians Unaware of Patient's CAM Use
Personal therapies (including home remedies, herbal medicine, homeopathy, or vitamin therapy)	425	15.2%	25.8%	62.9%
Relaxation techniques (including massage therapy, imagery, or visualization)	399	31.4%	18.1%	56.2%
Chiropractors	314	24.7%	34.1%	49.6%
Healing (including healers, spiritual, healing, Native American healers, or energy healing)	73	7.4%	21.3%	72.9%
Commercial weight loss programs	68	16.6%	33.2%	55.7%
Life-style diets	65	33.2%	35.2%	43.3%
Self-help groups	41	33.4%	42.7%	38.2%
Hypnosis or biofeedback	29	39.3%	12.1%	53.4%
Any CAM use	801	23.7%	25.7%	56.8%