the aim of the current study was to assess the extent to which complementary and alternative medicine (cam) has been used in children and adults to treat seizures and to compare the perceptions and usage of cam between adult patients who decides for themselves and adults who decide for their sick children.in this cross-sectional study, patients who have been treated for epilepsy for at least on...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the use of attitudes to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among UK physicians. DESIGN Postal questionnaire. SUBJECTS All Members and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians. RESULTS Twelve thousand, one hundred and sixty eight Members and Fellows were surveyed and a response rate of 23% (n = 2,875) was obtained. Responses from the small numbers of gene...

Academic medicine integrates three of the most honorable human activities: treating the ill, teaching, and research. The quality that all three share is persistent quest for truth. However, there is reluctance of academic medicine today to openly defend scientific truth by challenging the arguments and the very existence of "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM). There is no sound proof...

Use of complementary and alternative medicine CAM is commonly encountered among cancer patients. The method most commonly adopted is the use of alternative medicine products. In this study, use of CAM by Turkish cancer patients, its frequency and CAM usage alteration in over time according to results of previous studies were evaluated. Patients were enrolled from a single centre (Kayseri Traini...

BACKGROUND Despite the substantive literature from survey research that has accumulated on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States and elsewhere, very little research has been done to assess conceptual domains that CAM and conventional providers would emphasize in CAM survey studies. The objective of this study is to describe and interpret the results of concept mappin...

BACKGROUND The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) continues to increase in Taiwan. This study examined the use of CAM and beliefs about CAM as expressed by patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Taiwan. METHODS TBI patients and their accompanying relatives were interviewed by using a structured questionnaire at an outpatient clinic in a medical center in northern Taiwa...

Introduction: Complementary and alternative medicine is a group of diagnostic and therapeutic methods that are commonly used outside university education and are used by patients themselves. Some cancer patients use different types of CAM to reduce the complications of conventional therapies and improve their general condition, which is increasing. Determining the rate of complementary and alte...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become very popular with populations internationally and in the United States. CAM is defined as “a group of diverse medical and health systems, practices and products that are not generally considered as part of conventional medicine”. CAM is described as having five specific divisions: whole medical systems, mind-body medicine, biologically-bas...

A number of health-related interventions--from widespread therapies such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy and yoga, to less well-known modalities such as Feldenkrais, iridology, reflexology and reiki--have increasingly come under the general heading of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). A few, such as biofeedback, chiropractic and physical therapy, are considered conventio...

Aims. The aim of the study was to describe and compare (1) the types and prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments used among individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Nordic countries; (2) the types of conventional treatments besides disease-modifying medicine for MS that were used in combination with CAM treatments; (3) the types of symptoms/health issues add...