Complementary and alternative medicine use by visitors to rural Japanese family medicine clinics: Results from the international complementary and alternative medicine survey

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shumer, Gregory ^a   Warber, Sara ^a   Motohara, Satoko ^a   Yajima, Ayaka ^a   Plegue, Melissa ^a   Bialko, Matthew ^a   Iida, Tomoko ^b   Sano, Kiyoshi ^c   Amenomori, Masaki ^d   Tsuda, Tsukasa ^b   Fetters, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Kikugawa Home Medical Center   (Japan)

^c Haibara General Hospital   (Japan)

^d Yuge Medical Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); Family medicine; Integrative medicine; International complementary and alternative medicine questionnaire (I CAM Q); Japan; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL MEDICAL DEVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEALTH VISITOR; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE QUESTIONNAIRE; JAPANESE (CITIZEN); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PAIN RELIEF PAD; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; RURAL POPULATION; SELF HELP; SEX RATIO; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84907995988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-14-360     Document Type: Article

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