Alternative or additional medicine? An exploratory study in general practice

Treatment Seeking and Experience with Complementary/Alternative Medicine: A Continuum of Choice

“…Although the number of health problems also followed a similar increasing pattern from CM clients to the ECAM clients, the increased treatment rates remained significant after controlling for the number of health problems. In accordance with previous findings (Druss and Rosenheck, 1999;Murray and Shepherd, 1993;Paramore, 1997), this suggests that CAM clients may seek treatment for their health problems at higher rates than non-CAM users. Furthermore, the current study suggests that greater experience with CAM may be associated with higher treatment rates of non-life-threatening health issues irrespective of the number of health problems experienced.…”

“…In accordance with previous findings (Druss and Rosenheck, 1999;Murray and Shepherd, 1993;Paramore, 1997), this suggests that CAM clients may seek treatment for their health problems at higher rates than non-CAM users. Furthermore, the current study suggests that greater experience with CAM may be associated with higher treatment rates of non-life threatening health issues irrespective of the number of health problems experienced.…”

Treatment Seeking and Experience with Complementary/Alternative Medicine: A Continuum of Choice

“…Although the number of health problems also followed a similar increasing pattern from CM clients to the ECAM clients, the increased treatment rates remained significant after controlling for the number of health problems. In accordance with previous findings (Druss and Rosenheck, 1999;Murray and Shepherd, 1993;Paramore, 1997), this suggests that CAM clients may seek treatment for their health problems at higher rates than non-CAM users. Furthermore, the current study suggests that greater experience with CAM may be associated with higher treatment rates of non-life-threatening health issues irrespective of the number of health problems experienced.…”

“…In accordance with previous findings (Druss and Rosenheck, 1999;Murray and Shepherd, 1993;Paramore, 1997), this suggests that CAM clients may seek treatment for their health problems at higher rates than non-CAM users. Furthermore, the current study suggests that greater experience with CAM may be associated with higher treatment rates of non-life threatening health issues irrespective of the number of health problems experienced.…”

Continuity of GP care is associated with lower use of complementary and alternative medical providers: a population-based cross-sectional survey

“…Conversely, use of CAM providers might indicate distrust and dissatisfaction with the GP and conventional care [ 18 ], rather than a belief that conventional care is ineffective [ 19 ]. This is consistent with the suggestion that trust and belief in CAM providers is an important reason for CAM use [ 20 ], along with other reasons such as seeking to obtain a more holistic view, active participation, and empowerment in care [ 21 ]. One might speculate that continuity and CAM use are indications of the same phenomenon, namely the GP’s ability and capacity to deliver on these modalities.…”

“…However, there was an effect modification by gender, as this finding was stronger in women. Women constitute the majority of CAM users, and our finding supports the suggestion that CAM use is additional more than alternative to GP care [ 21 , 30 , 42 ]. Women assess their health as worse and seek care more often than men [ 17 , 45 ].…”

An investigation of the health beliefs and motivations of complementary medicine clients

“…Although other studies have found that CM clients tend to be younger (Furnham & Bhagrath, 1993;Murray & Shepherd, 1993), or older (Furnham & Kirkcaldy, 1996;Kitai et al, 1998) than OM clients, and more likely to be female than OM clients (Furnham & Bhagrath, 1993;Furnham & Kirkcaldy, 1996), these differences were not found in the current study. Instead, CM clients were similar to OM clients in age, gender, ethnic background, and employment status.…”

Treatment Seeking and Experience with Complementary/Alternative Medicine: A Continuum of Choice

“…Although the number of health problems also followed a similar increasing pattern from CM clients to the ECAM clients, the increased treatment rates remained significant after controlling for the number of health problems. In accordance with previous findings (Druss and Rosenheck, 1999;Murray and Shepherd, 1993;Paramore, 1997), this suggests that CAM clients may seek treatment for their health problems at higher rates than non-CAM users. Furthermore, the current study suggests that greater experience with CAM may be associated with higher treatment rates of non-life-threatening health issues irrespective of the number of health problems experienced.…”

“…In accordance with previous findings (Druss and Rosenheck, 1999;Murray and Shepherd, 1993;Paramore, 1997), this suggests that CAM clients may seek treatment for their health problems at higher rates than non-CAM users. Furthermore, the current study suggests that greater experience with CAM may be associated with higher treatment rates of non-life threatening health issues irrespective of the number of health problems experienced.…”

Continuity of GP care is associated with lower use of complementary and alternative medical providers: a population-based cross-sectional survey

“…Conversely, use of CAM providers might indicate distrust and dissatisfaction with the GP and conventional care [ 18 ], rather than a belief that conventional care is ineffective [ 19 ]. This is consistent with the suggestion that trust and belief in CAM providers is an important reason for CAM use [ 20 ], along with other reasons such as seeking to obtain a more holistic view, active participation, and empowerment in care [ 21 ]. One might speculate that continuity and CAM use are indications of the same phenomenon, namely the GP’s ability and capacity to deliver on these modalities.…”

“…However, there was an effect modification by gender, as this finding was stronger in women. Women constitute the majority of CAM users, and our finding supports the suggestion that CAM use is additional more than alternative to GP care [ 21 , 30 , 42 ]. Women assess their health as worse and seek care more often than men [ 17 , 45 ].…”

An investigation of the health beliefs and motivations of complementary medicine clients

“…Although other studies have found that CM clients tend to be younger (Furnham & Bhagrath, 1993;Murray & Shepherd, 1993), or older (Furnham & Kirkcaldy, 1996;Kitai et al, 1998) than OM clients, and more likely to be female than OM clients (Furnham & Bhagrath, 1993;Furnham & Kirkcaldy, 1996), these differences were not found in the current study. Instead, CM clients were similar to OM clients in age, gender, ethnic background, and employment status.…”

Treatment Seeking and Experience with Complementary/Alternative Medicine: A Continuum of Choice

“…Although the number of health problems also followed a similar increasing pattern from CM clients to the ECAM clients, the increased treatment rates remained significant after controlling for the number of health problems. In accordance with previous findings (Druss and Rosenheck, 1999;Murray and Shepherd, 1993;Paramore, 1997), this suggests that CAM clients may seek treatment for their health problems at higher rates than non-CAM users. Furthermore, the current study suggests that greater experience with CAM may be associated with higher treatment rates of non-life-threatening health issues irrespective of the number of health problems experienced.…”

“…In accordance with previous findings (Druss and Rosenheck, 1999;Murray and Shepherd, 1993;Paramore, 1997), this suggests that CAM clients may seek treatment for their health problems at higher rates than non-CAM users. Furthermore, the current study suggests that greater experience with CAM may be associated with higher treatment rates of non-life threatening health issues irrespective of the number of health problems experienced.…”

Continuity of GP care is associated with lower use of complementary and alternative medical providers: a population-based cross-sectional survey

“…Conversely, use of CAM providers might indicate distrust and dissatisfaction with the GP and conventional care [ 18 ], rather than a belief that conventional care is ineffective [ 19 ]. This is consistent with the suggestion that trust and belief in CAM providers is an important reason for CAM use [ 20 ], along with other reasons such as seeking to obtain a more holistic view, active participation, and empowerment in care [ 21 ]. One might speculate that continuity and CAM use are indications of the same phenomenon, namely the GP’s ability and capacity to deliver on these modalities.…”

“…However, there was an effect modification by gender, as this finding was stronger in women. Women constitute the majority of CAM users, and our finding supports the suggestion that CAM use is additional more than alternative to GP care [ 21 , 30 , 42 ]. Women assess their health as worse and seek care more often than men [ 17 , 45 ].…”

An investigation of the health beliefs and motivations of complementary medicine clients

“…Although other studies have found that CM clients tend to be younger (Furnham & Bhagrath, 1993;Murray & Shepherd, 1993), or older (Furnham & Kirkcaldy, 1996;Kitai et al, 1998) than OM clients, and more likely to be female than OM clients (Furnham & Bhagrath, 1993;Furnham & Kirkcaldy, 1996), these differences were not found in the current study. Instead, CM clients were similar to OM clients in age, gender, ethnic background, and employment status.…”