Description

For sample adults aged 18 and over who reported having at least one top alternative medicine (CAM) therapy and reported using their first CAM therapy to treat a specific health problem, symptom, or condition, TOTH21 reports if the person used the first of her/his top three therapies to treat a second other health problem. TOTH21 can paired with CAMTHER1, which reports the corresponding CAM therapy that was used to treat this other health problem. See the comparability tab for a discussion of how other conditions are defined and classified.

For related variables and more information, please see TABDOM1, or use the search function or IPUMS NHIS drop-down menus.

Comparability

TOTH21 is only available for sample adults and is automatically filled from an earlier section of the survey where persons could report other limiting conditions/health problems. Sample adults could report up to four other conditions treated by their first top CAM therapy: two conditions automatically filled from previous sections in the survey (TOTH11 and TOTH21), an "other-specify" condition (TOTH31), as well as "other-condition not elsewhere classified" (TOTH41).

Sample children could only provide a single other condition treated by their first CAM therapy, "other-specify", which is not included in TOTH21. The specific conditions that correspond to each of these other condition are not available. The sample child "other-specify" condition variable has been combined with the first automatically filled sample adult variable in the TOTH11, TOTH12, TOTH13 variables as they are the first, and only other condition reported for sample children, even though the description of this other information source more closely matches that of the sample adult variables TOTH31, TOTH32, TOTH33.

Universe

Availability

• 2012

Weights

• 2012 : SUPP4WT