Ting Chih-yin notes that research in countries such as the UK, the US and Australia shows that demographically speaking, people there who accept alternative medicine tend to be white-collar workers, middle-class, relatively well educated, and with a high degree of self-control, such as cultural and creative workers, environmentalists, and feminists.
丁志音指出，英美澳等國的研究顯示，接受另類療法者集中在白領、教育程度較高、自我控制能力較強的中產階級，譬如文化創意工作者、有綠色環保概念，以及女性主義者。