Testing the Traditional Chinese Medicine Consultation Model for Adherence in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Table 2

Participant health problems.

Health problem	Number of participants (%) (total: 101)
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue	31 (30.7)
Multiple	16 (15.8)
General health and wellbeing	12 (11.9)
Factors influencing health status and contact with health services	6 (5.9)
Symptoms, signs, and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified	6 (5.9)
Treatment modality	6 (5.9)
Mental, behavioral, and neurodevelopmental disorders	4 (4.0)
Diseases of the nervous system	4 (4.0)
Injury, poisoning, and certain other consequences of external causes	4 (4.0)
Neoplasms	2 (2.0)
Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases	2 (2.0)
Diseases of the respiratory system	2 (2.0)
Diseases of the digestive system	2 (2.0)
Diseases of the genitourinary system	1 (1.0)
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism	1 (1.0)
Diseases of the circulatory system	1 (1.0)
External causes of morbidity	1 (1.0)
Duration of days the therapist was seen [median (range)]	[1095 (1–7300)]