Attitudes toward and education about complementary and alternative medicine among adult patients with depression in Taiwan

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 988-997

  Hsu, Mei Chi ^a   Moyle, Wendy ^b,c   Creedy, Debra ^d   Venturato, Lorraine ^c   Ouyang, Wen Chen ^c,e,f   Sun, Gwo Ching ^g  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e Jianan Mental Hospital   (Taiwan)

^f CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Attitude; Complementary medicine; Depression; Education; Nursing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; TAIWAN;

AGED; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955945591     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.02848.x     Document Type: Article

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