How does acculturation affect the use of complementary and alternative medicine providers among Mexican-and Asian-Americans?

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 302-309

  Lee, Jennifer H ^a,b   Goldstein, Michael S ^a   Brown, E Richard ^b   Ballard Barbash, Rachel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Asian American; Complementary and alternative medicine providers; Mexican American

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHIROPRACTIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN AMERICANS; CALIFORNIA; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC; MASSAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956058653     PISSN: 15571912     EISSN: 15571920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-008-9171-1     Document Type: Article

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