| Characteristic | Stollery | CHEO | Both sites, no. (%) or mean ± SD | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n* | No. (%) or mean ± SD | n* | No. (%) or mean ± SD | |||||
| Patients | ||||||||
| Age, mean ± SD | 145 | 7.0 ± 5.6 | 31 | 8.6 ± 5.0 | 7.3 ± 5.5 | |||
| Sex, male | 144 | 81 | (56.3) | 31 | 19 | (61.3) | 100 | (57.1) |
| Ethnicity | 136 | 31 | ||||||
| White | 54 | (39.7) | 12 | (38.7) | 66 | (39.5) | ||
| Canadian/French Canadian | 50 | (36.8) | 14 | (45.2) | 64 | (38.3) | ||
| Aboriginal/Native/Metis/Inuit | 18 | (13.2) | 4 | (12.9) | 22 | (13.2) | ||
| East Indian | 9 | (6.6) | 1 | (3.2) | 10 | (6.0) | ||
| Asian | 7 | (5.1) | 1 | (3.2) | 8 | (4.8) | ||
| Black | 3 | (2.2) | 0 | 3 | (1.8) | |||
| Middle Eastern | 5 | (3.7) | 0 | 5 | (3.0) | |||
| Latin American/Mexican | 4 | (2.9) | 1 | (3.2) | 5 | (3.0) | ||
| Health status† | 145 | 31 | ||||||
| Excellent | 33 | (22.8) | 4 | (12.9) | 37 | (21.0) | ||
| Very good | 64 | (44.1) | 10 | (32.3) | 74 | (42.0) | ||
| Good | 32 | (22.1) | 14 | (45.2) | 46 | (26.1) | ||
| Fair | 15 | (10.3) | 2 | (6.5) | 17 | (9.7) | ||
| Poor | 1 | (0.7) | 1 | (3.2) | 2 | (1.1) | ||
| Time since diagnosis, mo | 142 | 31 | ||||||
| 0–3 | 31 | (21.8) | 4 | (12.9) | 35 | (20.2) | ||
| > 3–6 | 11 | (7.7) | 1 | (3.2) | 12 | (6.9) | ||
| > 6–12 | 14 | (9.9) | 3 | (9.7) | 17 | (9.8) | ||
| > 12 | 86 | (60.6) | 23 | (74.2) | 109 | (63.0) | ||
| Use of CAM in lifetime, yes‡ | 145 | 93 | (64.1) | 31 | 11 | (35.5) | 104 | (59.1) |
| Timing of CAM use | 82 | 11 | ||||||
| Before conventional medicine | 9 | (11.0) | 1 | (9.1) | 10 | (10.8) | ||
| Concurrent with conventional medicine | 34 | (41.5) | 4 | (36.4) | 38 | (40.9) | ||
| After conventional medicine was successful | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| After conventional medicine failed | 2 | (2.4) | 0 | 2 | (2.2) | |||
| Instead of conventional medicine | 5 | (6.1) | 0 | 5 | (5.4) | |||
Note: CAM = complementary and alternative medicine, CEGEP = Collège d’enseignement général et professionnel, CHEO = Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, SD = standard deviation. *Number of valid responses. †Significantly higher at CHEO than Stollery (p = 0.008). ‡Significantly higher at Stollery than CHEO (p = 0.003). §Significantly higher at CHEO than Stollery (p = 0.04). ¶Significantly higher at CHEO than Stollery (p = 0.01).