Psycho-socioeconomic factors affecting complementary and alternative medicine use among selected rural communities in Malaysia: A cross-sectional study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ganasegeran, Kurubaran ^a,b   Rajendran, Anantha Kumar ^b   Al Dubai, Sami Abdo Radman ^c  

^a Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah   (Malaysia)

^b MANAGEMENT AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^c INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AROMATHERAPY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; AYURVEDA; CHIROPRACTIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET THERAPY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOLISTIC COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE QUESTIONNAIRE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MASSAGE; MEDITATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QIGONG; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLEXOLOGY; REIKI; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SPA TREATMENT; TAI CHI; VERY ELDERLY; YOGA; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910674104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112124     Document Type: Article

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