*3.3. The Opinion of the Parents on Using TKM and Their Children's TKM Use Reported by Parents*

Table 3 shows whether the children's TKM use reported by parents changed depending on the parents' ideas or experience in using TKM. This analysis revealed that the group with a child having experienced using TKM had a higher rate of having experienced TKM themselves, compared with the group without a child who experienced TKM (*p* < 0.001). Overall, the participants' satisfaction with the TKM did not show a significant difference. Also, parents of the children with experience of using TKM showed a higher level of awareness of TKM (*p* = 0.033). The parents pre-conceived ideas regarding TKM did not result in a statistically significant result. The group with a child who experienced using TKM (*n* = 198, 94.7%) had a higher number of participants who answered that they were willing to use TKM in the future, compared to children who did not experience using TKM (*n* = 565, 85.2%) (*p* = 0.003). The group with children with experience of using TKM was more willing to recommend TKM to others (*p* < 0.001).

**Table 3.** Perception of the survey respondents with and without TKM experience of children.


The analysis based on the education levels of the participants showed that, of the 191 participants where all the children and the parents experienced TKM, the proportion of those with higher education was higher than the proportion of the same among the participants where either of or all of the parents of the children had not experienced TKM. A similar trend could be observed in the answers to the question whether they are willing to revisit a TKM clinic or recommend it to others.
