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  1. Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) is used to treat a broad range of conditions. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), TCAM use is particularly common among those with low socio-...

    Authors: Lia M. Palileo-Villanueva, Benjamin Palafox, Arianna Maever L. Amit, Veincent Christian F. Pepito, Fadhlina Ab-Majid, Farnaza Ariffin, Dina Balabanova, Mohamad-Rodi Isa, Nafiza Mat-Nasir, Mazapuspavina My, Alicia Renedo, Maureen L. Seguin, Khalid Yusoff, Antonio L. Dans and Martin Mckee
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:252
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  2. Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM) is often taken up by individuals seeking relief from different diseases. This study investigates the prevalence and associated factors of CIM use in patients with C...

    Authors: Mohammad Mahdi Parvizi, Sedigheh Forouhari, Reza Shahriarirad, Sepehr Shahriarirad, Ryan D Bradley and Leila Roosta
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:251
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  3. Complementary medicine therapists such as traditional acupuncturists are a large resource for supporting public health targets to improve health behaviours. Our objectives were to determine the prevalence and ...

    Authors: J. Pinto, K. Bradbury, D. Newell and F. L. Bishop
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:248
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  4. There is paucity of data regarding effects of guided meditation (Yoganidra) on quality of life among patients of chronic kidney disease on maintenance hemodialysis. Our objective was to study effects of guided...

    Authors: Bhalendu S. Vaishnav, Jekishan Jayeshbhai Hirapara and Maulin K. Shah
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:238
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  5. The study revealed that two thirds of the respondents (67%) had used CAM within the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular CAM modalities that did not involve a provider. Most used were natural re...

    Authors: Agnete Egilsdatter Kristoffersen, Miek C. Jong, Johanna Hök Nordberg, Esther T. van der Werf and Trine Stub
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:234
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  6. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has played a critical role in ensuring universal access to basic health care services around the world. In Bangladesh, conventional medicine is a common approach fo...

    Authors: Md. Shahjalal, Jeff Gow, Md. Ashfikur Rahman, Md. Jakir Hossain, Md. Nafiul Alam Khan, Md. Sazzadul Alam, Ahmed Hossain and Rashidul Alam Mahumud
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:225
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  7. Observational study with data from the 2019 National Health Survey that evaluated a sample of Brazilian adults. The outcome was CAM use, such as acupuncture, homeopathy, medicinal plants and herbal medicines, med...

    Authors: Patricia de Moraes Mello Boccolini, Karine de Lima Sírio Boclin, Islândia Maria Carvalho de Sousa and Cristiano Siqueira Boccolini
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:205
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  8. A qualitative research study was conducted using in-depth interviews, targeting Lebanese adults (CAM users; 18-65 years) (n=14), CAM providers such as yoga instructors, owners of CAM product outlets,...n=13); and...

    Authors: Zeinab Jaafar, Jennifer Ayoub, Rena Hamadeh, Samar Baydoun, Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar, Jinan Banna, Mohamad Alameddine and Farah Naja
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:204
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  9. Research exploring the use of specific Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) modalities by Norwegian cancer patients is sparse. The aims of this study were therefor to map the different CAM modalities c...

    Authors: Agnete E. Kristoffersen, Jorunn V. Nilsen, Trine Stub, Johanna Hök Nordberg, Barbara Wider, Dana Mora, Kiwumulo Nakandi and Mona Bjelland
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:202
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  10. The ongoing novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has a significant mortality rate of 3–5%. The principal causes of multiorgan failure and death are cytokine release syndrome and immune dysfunction. ...

    Authors: Indranill Basu-Ray, Kashinath Metri, Dibbendhu Khanra, Rishab Revankar, Kavitha M. Chinnaiyan, Nagaratna Raghuram, Mahesh Chandra Mishra, Bhushan Patwardhan, Manjunath Sharma, Ishwar V. Basavaraddi, Akshay Anand, Shrinath Reddy, K. K. Deepak, Marian Levy, Sue Theus, Glenn N. Levine…
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:191
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  11. Traditional Korean Medicine (TKM) is highly integrated with the modern health care system of South Korea and is actively used in the public health field. Since 2014, the Ministry of Health and Welfare of South...

    Authors: Eunhye Hyun, Jiseon Ryu, Kibong Kim, Sangjae Lee, Seungtae Kim and Byungmook Lim
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:175
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  12. Psychologists, and their clients, are engaging with complementary medicine (CM). Increasing evidence for CM approaches, such as improved nutrition and St John’s wort, has led to their inclusion in the Royal Au...

    Authors: Carrie Thomson-Casey, Jon Adams and Erica McIntyre
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:171
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  13. Massage is a widely acceptable and popular form of complementary medicine (CM) among Australian women. While there is some research that reports on massage use in younger women, there is minimal research explo...

    Authors: Suzy Ladanyi, Jon Adams and David Sibbritt
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:148
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  14. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is defined as a group of diverse medical and healthcare practices outside of conventional medicine modalities. The use of CAM is steadily increasing despite gaps in...

    Authors: Brittany R. Odegard, Mollie R. Ferguson, Farah Naja, Jennifer Ayoub and Jinan Banna
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:128
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  15. The International Cohort on Lifestyle Determinants of Health (INCLD Health) is an ongoing, prospective cohort study assessing the health behaviours and lifestyles of higher education students, including their ...

    Authors: Adam Sadowski, Ryan S. Wexler, Douglas Hanes, Lita Buttolph, Tediana Torrens, Jillian Moehle, Hadil Sarrar, Joanna Harnett, David T. Zava and Ryan Bradley
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:127
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  16. Viral infections have a history of abrupt and severe eruptions through the years in the form of pandemics. And yet, definitive therapies or preventive measures are not present. Herbal medicines have been a sou...

    Authors: Madiha Haider, Vivek Anand, M. Ghalib Enayathullah, Yash Parekh, Sushma Ram, Surekha Kumari, Anmol, Gayatri Panda, Manjari Shukla, Dhwani Dholakia, Arjun Ray, Sudipta Bhattacharyya, Upendra Sharma, Kiran Kumar Bokara, Bhavana Prasher and Mitali Mukerji
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:114
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  17. Identifying what therapies constitute complementary, alternative, and/or integrative medicine (CAIM) is complex for a multitude of reasons. An operational definition is dynamic, and changes based on both histo...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng, Tushar Dhawan, Ekaterina Dogadova, Zhala Taghi-Zada, Alexandra Vacca, L. Susan Wieland and David Moher
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:104
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  18. The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies has increased in recent years throughout the world and in Iran. Nonetheless, there are limited data about the prevalence of their use. This stu...

    Authors: Niloofar Karimianfard and Azita Jaberi
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:91
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:111

  19. Various mind-body practices are used by people living with HIV to promote their general well-being. Among these is autogenic training (AT), a self-guided relaxation technique requiring regular practice for obs...

    Authors: Maria Pilar Ramirez Garcia, Jérôme Leclerc-Loiselle, José Côté, Marie-Josée Brouillette and Réjean Thomas
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:86
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  20. Of 908 participants, 31.6% used one or more modalities of T&CM after a cancer diagnosis. The most commonly used T&CM was Ayurveda (46.5%), followed by yoga (32.4%). About 46% of...

    Authors: Soo Jeung Choi, Sangita Karki Kunwor, Hyea Bin Im, Jung Hye Hwang, Dain Choi and Dongwoon Han
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:70
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  22. Over 2 million people in Europe are affected by ulcerative colitis, which often severely impacts the quality of life of those concerned. Among other factors, lifestyle and psychosocial factors seem to play an ...

    Authors: Christoph Schlee, Christine Uecker, Nina Bauer, Anna K. Koch and Jost Langhorst
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:60
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  23. Major life changing events such as the COVID-19 pandemic may have major impact on one’s health and general well-being. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and predictive factors, including gender spec...

    Authors: Louise T. C. Mulder, Martine Busch, Agnete E. Kristoffersen, Johanna Hök Nordberg and Esther T. van der Werf
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:43
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  24. This analysis was based on data of the 2017 National Health Interview survey (NHIS, n...= 26,742; response rate 80,7%). We analyzed the prevalence of consultations among stroke patients with CM practitioners with...

    Authors: Wiebke K. Kohl-Heckl, Anna K. Koch and Holger Cramer
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:41
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  25. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and preliminary effects of the mHealth-delivered home-based mindfulness yoga program on functional balance, motor symptoms,...

    Authors: Jojo Yan Yan Kwok, Jung Jae Lee, Edmond Pui Hang Choi, Pui Hing Chau and Man Auyeung
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:37
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  26. To evaluate veteran patient and provider perceptions and preferences on complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) for headache management.

    Authors: Deena E. Kuruvilla, Hayley Lindsey, Amy S. Grinberg, Roberta E. Goldman, Samantha Riley, Sean Baird, Brenda T. Fenton, Jason J. Sico and Teresa M. Damush
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:22
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  27. Traditional and Complementary Medicine (TCM) is widely used particularly among patients with chronic diseases in primary care. However, evidence is lacking regarding TCM use among patients with Metabolic Syndr...

    Authors: Nor Farha Basri, Anis Safura Ramli, Mariam Mohamad and Khairatul Nainey Kamaruddin
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2022 22:14
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  28. The results of recent surveys indicate that more than 50% of the German population has experience with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) or uses CAM regularly. This study investigated the CAM usage ...

    Authors: Ann-Kathrin Lederer, Alexandra Baginski, Lena Raab, Stefanie Joos, Jan Valentini, Carina Klocke, Yvonne Samstag, Katrin Hübner, Ivana Andreeva, Thomas Simmet, Tatiana Syrovets, Susanne Hafner, Anna Freisinger, Maximilian Andreas Storz and Roman Huber
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:285
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  29. Lack of information exists about the use of traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) use among middle-aged and older adults in India, which led to studying the estimates of past-12-month Ayurveda/Yoga/Naturop...

    Authors: Supa Pengpid and Karl Peltzer
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:262
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  30. Complementary and integrative medical procedures (CIM) play an important role in general practice (GP). Consequently, in some countries (e.g. USA, Australia) specific curricula for the integration of CIM compe...

    Authors: Jan Valentini, Carina Klocke, Corina Güthlin and Stefanie Joos
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:250
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  31. The present study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and performance of Iranian Healthcare Professionals (HP) about Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) modalities.

    Authors: Alireza Jafari, Mohaddeseh Zanganeh, Zahra Kazemi, Elaheh Lael-Monfared and Hadi Tehrani
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:244
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  32. The global prevalence of diabetes mellitus is projected to reach approximately 700 million by the year 2045, with roughly 90–95% of all diabetes cases being type 2 in nature. Patients with type 2 diabetes mell...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng, Manav Nayeni and Kevin Gilotra
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:233
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  33. Over the past few decades, the popularity of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has grown considerably and along with it, scrutiny regarding its evidence base. While this is to be expected, and is in...

    Authors: Yasamin Veziari, Saravana Kumar and Matthew Leach
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:201
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  35. Traditional, complementary, alternative and integrative medicine (TCAIM) can be described as diverse medical and healthcare interventions, practices, products, or disciplines that are not considered as part of...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:185
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  36. The prevalence rates of the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in allergy patients range from 42% in the United States up to 50% in Europe. In the Czech Republic, no such data exists. Our aim ...

    Authors: Jitka Pokladnikova, A-La Park, Jan Draessler, Anna Lukacisinova and Irena Krcmova
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:171
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  37. Early life stress (ELS) has been linked to poor mental and physical health outcomes in adolescence and adulthood. Mindfulness reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety and improves cognitive and social outcom...

    Authors: Zsofia P. Cohen, Kelly T. Cosgrove, Elisabeth Akeman, Sara Coffey, Kent Teague, Jennifer Hays-Grudo, Martin P. Paulus, Robin L. Aupperle and Namik Kirlic
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:123
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  38. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) have recently become more popular and accepted worldwide. One principal step to identify the status and organize strategies of CAM is evaluating the manner and the ...

    Authors: Reihaneh Moeini, Seyyed Ali Mozaffarpur, Morteza Mojahedi, Seyed Davoud Nasrolahpour Shirvani, Narjes Gorji, Roshanak Saghebi, Farid Abolhassani Shahreza and Hoda Shirafkan
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:113
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  39. The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is increasing worldwide. To the best of knowledge, there is a lack of studies that assess CAM use by Palestinian women during pregnancy. This research ai...

    Authors: Yara Quzmar, Zeina Istiatieh, Hala Nabulsi, Sa’ed H. Zyoud and Samah W. Al-Jabi
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:108
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  40. The prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use and the modalities used by pediatric oncology patients vary widely across studies. In addition, the changes in the use of CAM over the course ...

    Authors: Emmanuelle Lüthi, Manuel Diezi, Nadia Danon, Julie Dubois, Jérôme Pasquier, Bernard Burnand and Pierre-Yves Rodondi
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:96
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  41. In recent decades complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been widely used worldwide as well as in Norway, where CAM is offered mainly outside the national health care service, mostly complementary to...

    Authors: Agnete Egilsdatter Kristoffersen, Sara A. Quandt and Trine Stub
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:93
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  42. Customers’ expectations and satisfaction are critical to ensure a more effective role of the community pharmacists in promoting the safe use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). The aim of this stu...

    Authors: Mohamad Ali Hijazi, Hibeh Shatila, Zeina Omeich, Abdalla El-Lakany, Maha Aboul Ela and Farah Naja
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:81
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  43. This descriptive study provides the first examination of global naturopathic education, regulation and practice frameworks that have potential to constrain or assist professional formation and integration in g...

    Authors: J. M. Dunn, A. E. Steel, J. Adams, I. Lloyd, N. De Groot, T. Hausser and J. Wardle
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:67
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  44. The prevalence of CAM use is increasing. This integrative review investigated New Zealand healthcare professionals’ practice of, attitudes toward, and knowledge about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

    Authors: Lizhou Liu, Yong Tang, G. David Baxter, Haiyan Yin and Steve Tumilty
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:63
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  46. Sleep disorders encompass a wide range of conditions which affect the quality and quantity of sleep, with insomnia being a specific type of sleep disorder of focus in this review. Complementary and alternative...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng and Nandana D. Parakh
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:54
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  47. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and its impact on antiepileptic drug (AED) adherence among patients with epilepsy.

    Authors: Muhammad Junaid Farrukh, Mohd Makmor-Bakry, Ernieda Hatah and Tan Hui Jan
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:50
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  48. Generally, complementary and alternative therapies (CAT) are accepted methods of treatment by patients with various types of conditions. Their use is becoming especially prevalent among patients with eye probl...

    Authors: Dania Jaber, Rafat Abu Ghannam, Waleed Rashed, Mohammad Shehadeh and Sa’ed H. Zyoud
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2021 21:3
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  49. To determine similarities and differences in the reasons for using or not using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) amongst general and condition-specific populations, and amongst populations in each ...

    Authors: Mayuree Tangkiatkumjai, Helen Boardman and Dawn-Marie Walker
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:363
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  50. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and responsible for a global pandemic. Despite there being no known vaccines or medi...

    Authors: Jeremy Y. Ng
    Citation: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 2020 20:353
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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