Consultations with health care providers and use of self-management strategies for prevention and treatment of COVID-19 related symptoms. A population based cross-sectional study in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.

Autor: Kristoffersen AE; National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway. Electronic address: agnete.kristoffersen@uit.no., van der Werf ET; Louis Bolk Institute, Bunnik, the Netherlands; The Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (CIZG), the Netherlands., Stub T; National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway., Musial F; National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway., Wider B; National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway., Jong MC; National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NAFKAM), Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway., Wode K; Regional Cancer Center Stockholm Gotland, Stockholm, Sweden; Department Radiation Sciences Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Upper Abdominal Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden., Danell JB; Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden., Busch M; The Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (CIZG), the Netherlands; Van Praag Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands., Hoenders HJR; The Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health (CIZG), the Netherlands; Center for Integrative Psychiatry, Lentis, Groningen, the Netherlands., Nordberg JH; Regional Cancer Center Stockholm Gotland, Stockholm, Sweden; Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences & Society, Divison of Nursing & Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Complementary therapies in medicine [Complement Ther Med] 2022 Mar; Vol. 64, pp. 102792. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 23.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2021.102792
Abstrakt: Objectives: The present study was initiated to determine consultations with health care providers and use of self-management strategies for prevention or treatment of COVID-19 related symptoms in countries with a full lockdown (Norway), a partial lockdown (the Netherlands) and no lockdown (Sweden) during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and if such use correlates with worries of being infected by COVID-19 disease.
Design: Data were collected in collaboration with Ipsos A/S in April-June 2020. An adapted version of the International Questionnaire to measure use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (I-CAM-Q) was used with the categories "for prevention of COVID-19" and "to treat COVID-19-related symptoms" added. Data were collected among a representative sample in Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands using data assisted telephone interviews (Norway, n=990 and Sweden, n=500), and an online survey (the Netherlands, n=1004). Total response rate was 30%.
Results: Very few consulted a health care provider with the intention to treat or prevent COVID-19 (1.2% and 1.0% respectively) with medical doctors mostly visited (1.0% and 0.9% respectively). Similarly, the use of self-management strategies to prevent or treat COVID-19 was low (3.4% and 0.2% respectively); most commonly used for prevention of COVID-19 were vitamins and minerals (2.8%). Consultations with health care providers and use of self-management strategies for prevention of COVID-19 were positively associated with worries of being infected with COVID-19.
Conclusions: The COVID-19 pandemic does not seem to have evoked a large-scale difference in behavior related to consultations with health care providers or the use of self-management strategies in any of the three countries.
(Copyright © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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