Research Article
Characteristics of Herbal Medicine Users and Adverse Events Experienced in South Korea: A Survey Study
Table 3
Opinion on safety of herbal medicines.
| | | Herbal medicine is safe (, 64.0%) | Herbal medicine is not safe (, 36.0%) | value |
| | Sex | | | | | Men | 430 (59.2) | 161 (39.5) | >0.001 | | Women | 296 (40.8) | 247 (60.5) | | Age (years) | | | | | 20–29 | 154 (21.2) | 55 (13.5) | >0.001 | | 30–39 | 166 (22.9) | 71 (17.4) | | 40–49 | 176 (24.2) | 101 (24.8) | | 50–59 | 148 (20.4) | 105 (25.7) | | 60–69 | 82 (11.3) | 76 (18.6) | | Occupation | | | | | Executives professionals | 145 (20.0) | 69 (16.9) | 0.142 | | Office workers | 252 (34.7) | 140 (34.3) | | Service sales workers | 52 (7.2) | 31 (7.6) | | Agriculture, forestry, and fishery workers | 4 (0.6) | 0 | | Craft mechanical workers | 32 (4.4) | 9 (2.2) | | Simple labourers | 11 (1.5) | 4 (1.0) | | Self-employed, part-time employees, and freelancers | 14 (1.9) | 11 (2.7) | | Students, housewives, and unemployed | 216 (29.8%) | 144 (35.3) | | Level of education | | | | | Middle school | 10 (1.4) | 2 (0.4) | 0.610 | | High school | 138 (19.0) | 80 (19.6) | | College | 499 (68.7) | 285 (69.9) | | Graduate school | 79 (10.9) | 41 (10.0) |
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All data are in (%).
Chi-square test was performed.
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