Table 6 Cross tabulation of demographics and access route to CAM practitioners

Demographics		Access route to CAM				Unadjusted			Adjusted
		GP referred/ recommended (n = 133)		Self-referred (n = 539)		Odds ratio for GP referral	95% confidence interval	P value	Odds ratio for GP referral	95% confidence interval	P value
		n	% of row	n	% of row	Odds ratio for GP referral	95% confidence interval	P value	Odds ratio for GP referral	95% confidence interval	P value
Sex	Male	55	19	186	65	1.00			1.00
Sex	Female	78	16	353	74	0.81	0.56 to 1.19	0.286	0.69	0.44 to 1.07	0.097
Age	15–24	14	21	42	61	1.00			1.00
	25–34	15	13	86	72	0.56	0.25 to 1.23	0.147	0.62	0.25 to 1.51	0.293
	35–44	16	10	120	73	0.41	0.19 to 0.88	0.023	0.48	0.19 to 1.22	0.124
	45–54	25	15	118	72	0.69	0.34 to 1.42	0.315	0.91	0.36 to 2.30	0.849
	55–64	28	23	84	69	1.13	0.55 to 2.32	0.741	1.37	0.54 to 3.46	0.51
	65+	34	26	89	68	1.34	0.66 to 2.70	0.417	1.15	0.41 to 3.20	0.796
Ethnicity	White	119	17	501	71	1.00			1.00
	Asian	1	12	8	74	0.64	0.10 to 4.26	0.646	0.83	0.16 to 4.37	0.826
	Black	10	34	15	50	2.47	1.13 to 5.42	0.024	2.73	1.25 to 5.98	0.012
	Mixed	2	18	6	57	1.08	0.22 to 5.23	0.928	1.27	0.29 to 5.54	0.752
	Other	1	6	8	87	0.31	0.02 to 5.25	0.414	0.37	0.04 to 3.65	0.398
Housing tenure	Mortgaged	79	14	413	75	1.00			1.00
	Rented	51	2	122	59	1.90	1.28 to 2.83	0.001	2.43	1.47 to 4.03	0.001
	Other	2	25	5	50	1.94	0.42 to 9.01	0.399	2.17	0.37 to 12.87	0.394
Income	Up to £11 499	25	30	48	56	1.00			1.00
	£11 500–£24 999	25	20	85	71	0.59	0.31 to 1.12	0.108	Not conducted, due to 30% missing data
	£25 000+	46	13	266	74	0.33	0.19 to 0.57	<0.001	Not conducted, due to 30% missing data
Marital status	Married	77	16	346	71	1.00			1.00
	Single	35	19	125	68	1.25	0.81 to 1.94	0.317	1.03	0.59 to 1.78	0.922
	Widow/divorced/separated	20	21	68	72	1.45	0.84 to 2.51	0.186	1.13	0.59 to 2.15	0.718
Region of England	North	42	22	120	65	1.00			1.00
	Midlands	23	16	103	69	0.64	0.36 to 1.12	0.115	0.61	0.34 to 1.07	0.086
	South	59	17	251	72	0.70	0.45 to 1.09	0.117	0.82	0.49 to 1.37	0.444
	London	9	11	65	80	0.42	0.19 to 0.92	0.03	0.51	0.23 to 1.14	0.101
Working status	Working	62	13	368	74	1.00			1.00
	In education	7	17	26	67	1.43	0.60 to 3.43	0.422	0.74	0.27 to 2.04	0.565
	Not working	64	28	145	63	2.66	1.80 to 3.94	<0.001	1.77	1.02 to 3.08	0.043
Social grade^a	A	2	6	27	76	1.00			1.00
	B	34	14	174	72	2.41	0.59 to 9.84	0.221	1.94	0.42 to 9.08	0.399
	C1	38	16	181	75	2.77	0.68 to 11.29	0.154	1.91	0.41 to 8.83	0.409
	C2	21	15	95	68	2.65	0.63 to 11.15	0.183	2.00	0.41 to 9.65	0.388
	D	22	30	45	62	6.38	1.50 to 27.17	0.012	3.52	0.71 to 17.50	0.124
	E	16	43	18	49	11.18	2.47 to 50.54	0.002	4.45	0.83 to 23.88	0.082

^aBased on National Readership Survey categories:
A: High managerial, administrative, or professional
B: Intermediate managerial, administrative, or professional
C1: Supervisory, clerical and junior managerial, administrative, or professional
C2: Skilled manual workers
D: Semi and unskilled manual workers
E: State pensioners, casual, or lowest grade workers, unemployed with state benefits only