More than one-third of US adults use alternative medicine
Case Management Weekly, June 4, 2004
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Thirty-six percent of adults in the United States use some type of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey. When researchers included prayer for health reasons in the definition of CAM, the number of adults using CAM rose to 62%.
Adults used CAM most often to treat back pain, colds, neck pain, joint pain, and anxiety or depression. The most commonly used CAM therapies were prayer, natural products such as herbs and botanicals, yoga and diets such as the Atkins and Zone diets. Only 12% of respondents said they have conferred with a licensed CAM practitioner, implying that most adults are using CAM therapies without consulting a health care professional or practitioner.
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