Patterns of use and attitudes of complementary medicine consumers in Switzerland
| Autor: | O. Kristof, R. Saller, B. Wyss, M. Schlumpf |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Advanced and Specialized Nursing
Complementary and Manual Therapy medicine.medical_specialty Quality management Reflexology business.industry Alternative medicine Convenience sample Complementary and alternative medicine Family medicine Medicine business Complementary medicine Event (probability theory) |
| Zdroj: | Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 6:25-29 |
| ISSN: | 0965-2299 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0965-2299(98)80053-8 |
| Popis: | Summary Objective: to gather information about the attitudes of frequent users of complementary medicine in Switzerland. Design: survey (convenience sample). Setting: the Schweizerische Gesundheitstage, a Swiss complementary medicine event. Results: 222 users of complementary medicine responded. On average they used 4.2 different techniques. Bach's flowers and reflexology were each used by more than half of the responders. Most participants agreed that they want their general practitioner to be acquainted with, recommend and use methods of complementary medicine more than they currently do. Most respondents believed that General Practitioners (GPs) and complementary practitioners should co-operate and users are also in favour of quality management, such as regulated training for complementary practitioners. Over 70% agreed that complementary medicine methods needed rigorous examination. Sixty nine percent of respondents agreed that not enough independent information is available. Conclusions: since people argue for co-operation between General and complementary practitioners, it seems that they feel there is a real complementary relationship between conventional and complementary medicine. Frequent users are not uncritical. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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