P04.21. What infectious disease (ID) physicians believe about integrative medicine (IM) modalities

Methods A national survey of 1000 practicing ID physicians in the United States was conducted in 2010. We asked ID physicians to rate their degree of agreement with statements about IM modalities (“strongly agree”, “somewhat agree”, “somewhat disagree”, and “strongly disagree”). The statements were regarding IM modalities’ (1) usefulness, (2) placebo mechanism, (3) utility in alleviating symptoms, (4) effect on the underlying disease process, and (5) ability to directly affect the immune system. We then asked a subset of the respondents who indicated that they either “strongly agree” or “somewhat agree” to the statements “In general, IM modalities affect the underlying disease process” or “In general IM modalities, affect the immune system” to indicate which areas of IM they were referring.