作者
William K Bleser, Bilikisu Reni Elewonibi, Patricia Y Miranda, Rhonda BeLue
发表日期
2016/11/1
期刊
Pediatrics
卷号
138
期号
5
出版商
American Academy of Pediatrics
简介
BACKGROUND:
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasingly used in the United States. Although CAM is mostly used in conjunction with conventional medicine, some CAM practitioners recommend against vaccination, and children who saw naturopathic physicians or chiropractors were less likely to receive vaccines and more likely to get vaccine-preventable diseases. Nothing is known about how child CAM usage affects influenza vaccination.
METHODS:
This nationally representative study analyzed∼ 9000 children from the Child Complementary and Alternative Medicine File of the 2012 National Health Interview Survey. Adjusting for health services use factors, it examined influenza vaccination odds by ever using major CAM domains:(1) alternative medical systems (AMS; eg, acupuncture);(2) biologically-based therapies, excluding multivitamins/multiminerals (eg, herbal supplements);(3 …
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