TY - JOUR AU - Bishop, Felicity L. AU - Lewith, George T. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/05/13 TI - Patients’ preconceptions of acupuncture: a qualitative study exploring the decisions patients make when seeking acupuncture JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 102 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Like any other form of healthcare, acupuncture takes place in a particular context which can enhance or diminish treatment outcomes (i.e. can produce contextual effects). Patients’ expectations of acupuncture might be an important component of contextual effects, but we know relatively little about the origins and nature of patients’ expectations or wider preconceptions about acupuncture. Our aim was to identify the processes the underpin patients’ decisions to try acupuncture and thus begin to tease out the origins and nature of patients’ preconceptions. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-13-102 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-13-102 ID - Bishop2013 ER -