Motivations for consulting complementary and alternative medicine practitioners: a comparison of consumers from 1997–8 and 2005

FM Sirois - BMC Complementary and alternative Medicine, 2008 - Springer
Background Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and especially CAM
practitioners, has continued to rise in recent years. Although several motivators of CAM use …

Why consumers maintain complementary and alternative medicine use: a qualitative study

FL Bishop, L Yardley, GT Lewith - The Journal of Alternative and …, 2010 - liebertpub.com
Objectives: Although research evidence exists to suggest why consumers use
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), there remains a need to distinguish …

A literature review of health care professional attitudes toward complementary and alternative medicine

MJ Sewitch, M Cepoiu, N Rigillo… - Complementary …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective. To summarize health care professionals' attitudes toward complementary and
alternative medicine (CAM). Methods. In October 2006, we searched Allied and …

Factors influencing the use of complementary and alternative medicine and whether patients inform their primary care physician

P Thomson, J Jones, JM Evans, SL Leslie - Complementary therapies in …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVES: Use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) is widespread.
Several studies have explored why individuals chose to use CAM but there are fewer data to …

Discrepancy between patients' use of and health providers' familiarity with CAM

Y Zhang, K Peck, M Spalding, BG Jones… - Patient education and …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To compare patients' complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use and
physicians' familiarity with certain CAM modalities in the same setting and to assess patient …

Use of complementary and alternative medicine among patients: classification criteria determine level of use

AE Kristoffersen, V Fønnebø… - The Journal of Alternative …, 2008 - liebertpub.com
Background and objectives: Self-reported use of complementary and alternative medicine
(CAM) among patients varies widely between studies, possibly because the definition of a …

Differences between male and female consumers of complementary and alternative medicine in a national US population: a secondary analysis of 2012 NIHS data

Y Zhang, MJ Leach, H Hall, T Sundberg… - Evidence‐Based …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We examined the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2012 to explore how US adult
consumers of CAM differ by gender in terms of their sociodemographic characteristics …

Characteristics and health perceptions of complementary and alternative medicine users in the United States

MA Laiyemo, G Nunlee-Bland, RG Adams… - The American journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use has been increasing and
these unconventional therapies do have important adverse effects. We evaluated predictors …

Patterns of complementary and alternative medicine use amongst outpatients in Tokyo, Japan

S Hori, I Mihaylov, JC Vasconcelos… - BMC Complementary and …, 2008 - Springer
Background The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been
increasing rapidly throughout the world during the past decade. The use of CAM in the …

Complementary and alternative medicine use by visitors to rural Japanese family medicine clinics: results from the international complementary and alternative …

G Shumer, S Warber, S Motohara, A Yajima… - … and Alternative Medicine, 2014 - Springer
Background There is growing interest in the use of complementary and alternative medicine
(CAM) throughout the world, however previous research done in Japan has focused …