Open AccessIs Prayer CAM?
Author(s) -
Kim Tippens,
Kevin Marsman,
Heather Zwickey
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the journal of alternative and complementary medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1557-7708
pISSN - 1075-5535
DOI - 10.1089/acm.2008.0480
Subject(s) - prayer , medicine , alternative medicine , intervention (counseling) , ethnic group , traditional medicine , family medicine , nursing , religious studies , pathology , law , philosophy , political science
Alternative medicine researchers and policy makers have classified prayer as a mind-body intervention, and thus, a modality of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). As such, numerous epidemiological surveys of CAM utilization-which have included prayer-depict increasing CAM use, particularly in specific racial and ethnic groups.
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