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  1. Available measures of patient-reported outcomes for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) inadequately capture the range of patient-reported treatment effects. The Self-Assessment of Change questionnair...

    Authors: Jennifer J Thompson, Kimberly L Kelly, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Allison L Hopkins, Colette M Sims and Stephen J Coons
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:136
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  2. Patients receiving complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies often report shifts in well-being that go beyond resolution of the original presenting symptoms. We undertook a research program to dev...

    Authors: Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Mimi Nichter, Mark A Nichter, Kimberly L Kelly, Colette M Sims, Iris R Bell, Heide M Castañeda, Charles R Elder, Mary S Koithan, Elizabeth G Sutherland, Marja J Verhoef, Sarah L Warber and Stephen J Coons
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:135
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  3. Very little research has explored the factors that influence interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments. We surveyed persons with sub-optimally controlled type 2 diabetes to evaluate p...

    Authors: Ryan Bradley, Karen J Sherman, Sheryl Catz, Carlo Calabrese, Luesa Jordan, Lou Grothaus and Dan C Cherkin
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:121
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  4. Substantial recent research examines the efficacy of many types of complementary and alternative (CAM) therapies. However, outcomes associated with the "real-world" use of CAM has been largely overlooked, desp...

    Authors: Lynn L DeBar, Charles Elder, Cheryl Ritenbaugh, Mikel Aickin, Rick Deyo, Richard Meenan, John Dickerson, Jennifer A Webster and Bobbi Jo Yarborough
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:118
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  5. Hot flashes are a highly prevalent problem associated with menopause and breast cancer treatments. The recent findings from the Women's Health Initiative have important implications for the significance of a n...

    Authors: Gary R Elkins, William I Fisher and Aimee K Johnson
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:92
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  6. Evidence indicates that people who reside in non-urban areas have a higher use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) than people who reside in urban areas. However, there is sparse research on the re...

    Authors: Jon Adams, David Sibbritt, Alex Broom, Deborah Loxton, Marie Pirotta, John Humphreys and Chi-Wai Lui
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:85
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  7. This study explores nursing personnel's experiences and perceptions of receiving tactile massage and hypnosis during a personnel health promotion project. Nursing in a short term emergency ward environment can...

    Authors: Fanny Airosa, Susanne K Andersson, Torkel Falkenberg, Christina Forsberg, Elisabeth Nordby-Hörnell, Gunnar Öhlén and Tobias Sundberg
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:83
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  8. Therapeutic massage and bodywork (TMB) practitioners are predominantly trained in programs that are not uniformly standardized, and in variable combinations of therapies. To date no studies have explored this ...

    Authors: Antony J Porcino, Heather S Boon, Stacey A Page and Marja J Verhoef
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:75
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  9. The aim was to investigate changes in the prevalence and characteristics of male and female visitors to practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in a large adult population from 1997 to 2008.

    Authors: Aslak Steinsbekk, Marit B Rise and Roar Johnsen
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:61
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  10. Of the 342 respondents, 96% were women and 92% were Caucasian. Most (73%) reported one or more health conditions, notably anxiety (49%); back pain (41%); GI problems such as irritable bowel syndrome (34%); or dep...

    Authors: Kathi Kemper, Sally Bulla, Deborah Krueger, Mary Jane Ott, Jane A McCool and Paula Gardiner
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:26
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  11. Preoperative anxiety and physical unfitness have been shown to have adverse effects on recovery from cardiac surgery. This study involving cardiac surgery patients was primarily aimed at assessing the feasibil...

    Authors: Franklin Rosenfeldt, Lesley Braun, Ondine Spitzer, Scott Bradley, Judy Shepherd, Michael Bailey, Juliana van der Merwe, Jee -Yoong Leong and Donald Esmore
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:20
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  12. CAM is presently offered in about 50% of Norwegian hospitals and one-third of Danish hospitals. In Norway CAM was offered in 50 hospitals, 40 of which involved acupuncture. 19 hospitals gave other alternative the...

    Authors: Laila J Salomonsen, Lasse Skovgaard, Søren la Cour, Lisbeth Nyborg, Laila Launsø and Vinjar Fønnebø
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2011 11:4
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  13. The collaborative treatment of acupuncture in addition to routine care as an approach for the management of low back pain (LBP) is receiving increasing recognition from both public and professional arenas. In ...

    Authors: Namkwen Kim, Bongmin Yang, Taejin Lee and Soonman Kwon
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:74
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  14. The number of dementia patients has increased worldwide, with an estimated 13.7 million dementia patients in the Asia Pacific region alone. This number is expected to increase to 64.6 million by the year 2050.

    Authors: Masatoshi Takeda, Ryota Hashimoto, Takashi Kudo, Masayasu Okochi, Shinji Tagami, Takashi Morihara, Golam Sadick and Toshihisa Tanaka
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:28
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  15. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is growing in popularity, especially within the pediatric population. Research on CAM practitioners and their specialties, such as pediatrics, is lacking. Within th...

    Authors: Katherine A Pohlman, Maria A Hondras, Cynthia R Long and Andrea G Haan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:26
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  16. Tobacco smoking remains the leading preventable cause of death among American women. Exercise has shown promise as an aid to smoking cessation because it reduces weight gain and weight concerns, improves affect, ...

    Authors: Beth C Bock, Kathleen M Morrow, Bruce M Becker, David M Williams, Geoffrey Tremont, Ronnesia B Gaskins, Ernestine Jennings, Joseph Fava and Bess H Marcus
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:14
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  17. The Feldenkrais Method ® of somatic education purports to guide people of varying ages and abilities to improve function. Many people choose this method to aid with recovery from injury, manage chronic conditions...

    Authors: Patricia A Buchanan
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:12
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  18. We aimed to describe prevailing attitudes and practices of rheumatologists in the United States toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments. We wanted to determine whether rheumatologists' p...

    Authors: Nisha J Manek, Cynthia S Crowson, Abigale L Ottenberg, Farr A Curlin, Ted J Kaptchuk and Jon C Tilburt
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2010 10:5
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  19. Studies exploring the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to enhance fertility are limited. While Australian trends indicate that women are using CAM during pregnancy, little is known about wom...

    Authors: Jo-Anne Rayner, Helen L McLachlan, Della A Forster and Rhian Cramer
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2009 9:52
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  20. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a functional bowel disorder with symptoms of abdominal pain and disturbed defecation experienced by 10% of U.S. adults, results in significant disability, impaired quality of li...

    Authors: Susan A Gaylord, William E Whitehead, Rebecca S Coble, Keturah R Faurot, Olafur S Palsson, Eric L Garland, William Frey and John Douglas Mann
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2009 9:24
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  22. While the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among cancer patients is common and widespread, levels of commitment to CAM vary. "Committed" CAM use is important to investigate, as it may be ass...

    Authors: Johanna Hök, Carol Tishelman, Alexander Ploner, Anette Forss and Torkel Falkenberg
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:48
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  23. CAM was used by 35% of patients, at a median yearly cost of $200. The most common CAM types were ginger, massage therapy and yoga. CAM use was associated with female gender...

    Authors: Miranda AL van Tilburg, Olafur S Palsson, Rona L Levy, Andrew D Feld, Marsha J Turner, Douglas A Drossman and William E Whitehead
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:46
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  24. In the U.S., complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is most prevalent among reproductive age, educated women. We sought to determine general attitudes and approaches to CAM among obstetric and gyneco...

    Authors: Mandi L Furlow, Divya A Patel, Ananda Sen and J Rebecca Liu
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:35
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  25. Complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies are commonly used by pediatric patients with chronic medical conditions. Little is known about parents' perceptions of these therapies. This study describe...

    Authors: Kelly Rouster-Stevens, Savithri Nageswaran, Thomas A Arcury and Kathi J Kemper
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:25
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  26. Yoga has been shown to be a simple ... . This study investigated the impact of Hatha yoga and conventional physical training (PT) exercise...

    Authors: Lorenzo A Gordon, Errol Y Morrison, Donovan A McGrowder, Ronald Young, Yeiny Terry Pena Fraser, Eslaen Martorell Zamora, Ruby L Alexander-Lindo and Rachael R Irving
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:21
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  27. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is well documented among breast cancer patients and survivors, but little evidence is available to describe rates and patterns of use among women at increased g...

    Authors: Christine M Mueller, Phuong L Mai, Jaime Bucher, June A Peters, Jennifer T Loud and Mark H Greene
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:17
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  28. Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and especially CAM practitioners, has continued to rise in recent years. Although several motivators of CAM use have been identified, little is known about ...

    Authors: Fuschia M Sirois
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:16
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  29. Allergies cause a considerable burden to both sufferers and the National Health Service. There is growing interest in acupuncture as a treatment for a range of conditions. Since acupuncture may modulate the im...

    Authors: Jonathan Roberts, Aarnoud Huissoon, Janine Dretzke, Dechao Wang and Christopher Hyde
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:13
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  30. Studies have shown that a significant proportion of people with epilepsy use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). CAM use is known to vary between different ethnic groups and cultural contexts; howeve...

    Authors: Penny J Rhodes, Neil Small, Hanif Ismail and John P Wright
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:7
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  31. While many Complementary/Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners do not object to immunization, some discourage or even actively oppose vaccination among their patients. However, previous studies in this area...

    Authors: Shannon Stokley, Karen A Cullen, Allison Kennedy and Barbara H Bardenheier
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:6
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  32. Self-care practices for patients with hypertension include adherence to medication, use of blood pressure self-monitoring and use of complementary and alternative therapies (CAM) The prevalence of CAM use and ...

    Authors: Faekah Gohar, Sheila M Greenfield, D Gareth Beevers, Gregory YH Lip and Kate Jolly
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008 8:4
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  33. Increasing rates of psychosocial disturbances give rise to increased risks and vulnerability for a wide variety of stress-related chronic pain and other illnesses. Relaxation exercises aim at reducing stress and ...

    Authors: Anette Kjellgren, Sven Å Bood, Kajsa Axelsson, Torsten Norlander and Fahri Saatcioglu
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2007 7:43
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  34. Little is known about the metabolic and heart rate responses to a typical hatha yoga session. The purposes of this study were 1) to determine whether a typical yoga practice using various postures meets the curre...

    Authors: Marshall Hagins, Wendy Moore and Andrew Rundle
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2007 7:40
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  35. We analyzed adherence data from a 3-arm trial involving 135 generally healthy seniors 65–85 years of age randomized to a 6-month intervention consisting of: an Iyengar yoga class with home practice, an exercise c...

    Authors: KE Flegal, S Kishiyama, D Zajdel, M Haas and BS Oken
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2007 7:37
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  37. Patients were treated for a variety of pain problems including low back pain (38.4%), headaches (9.9%), and knee pain (6.5%); the average duration of pain was 16 years. The median morphine equivalent opioid dose ...

    Authors: Sara Fleming, David P Rabago, Marlon P Mundt and Michael F Fleming
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2007 7:15
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  38. Chronic fatiguing illnesses, including chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), pose a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Previous clinical reports addressed the utilization of health care provided to patients with ...

    Authors: James F Jones, Elizabeth M Maloney, Roumiana S Boneva, Ann-Britt Jones and William C Reeves
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2007 7:12
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  39. Use of complementary medicine is common, consumer driven and usually outpatient focused. We wished to determine interest among the medical staff at a North Carolina academic medical center in integrating diver...

    Authors: Kathi J Kemper, Deborah Dirkse, Dee Eadie and Melissa Pennington
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2007 7:5
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  40. There is growing concern that serious interactions are occurring between prescribed/over the counter and herbal medicines and that there is a lack of disclosure of herbal use by patients to doctors. This study...

    Authors: Kathryn A Vickers, Kate B Jolly and Sheila M Greenfield
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2006 6:40
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  41. Different procedures practiced in yoga have stimulatory or inhibitory effects on the ... of individuals actively engaging in a combination of yoga practices (asana or yogic postures, meditation ... period of six ...

    Authors: MS Chaya, AV Kurpad, HR Nagendra and R Nagarathna
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2006 6:28
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  42. Although back pain is the most common reason patients use complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, little is known about the willingness of primary care back pain patients to try these therapies....

    Authors: Karen J Sherman, Daniel C Cherkin, Maureen T Connelly, Janet Erro, Jacqueline B Savetsky, Roger B Davis and David M Eisenberg
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004 4:9
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  43. The purpose of this study was to determine, among the Indian community of Chatsworth, South Africa, the prevalence and utilisation patterns of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), attitudes associated...

    Authors: Vimal Singh, Deshandra M Raidoo and Catherine S Harries
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004 4:3
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  44. 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 con...

    Authors: Carol M Baldwin, Kendall Kroesen, William M Trochim and Iris R Bell
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004 4:2
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  45. The use of CAM is at an all time high. There is very little research that compares the use of CAM in elders by ethnicity in rural settings. The purpose of the study was to determine if there was a difference b...

    Authors: Norma Cuellar, Teresa Aycock, Bridgett Cahill and Julie Ford
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2003 3:8
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  46. This study sought to describe the pattern of complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) use among a group of patients with advanced breast cancer, to examine the main reasons for their CAM use, to identify patie...

    Authors: Joannie Shen, Ronald Andersen, Paul S Albert, Neil Wenger, John Glaspy, Melissa Cole and Paul Shekelle
    Citation: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2002 2:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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