Open AccessThe utilization of complementary and alternative medicine in Taiwan
Author(s) -
Ching Wen Huang,
Diem Ngoc Hong Tran,
Tsai Feng Li,
Yui Sasaki,
Ju Ah Lee,
Myeong Soo Lee,
Ichiro Arai,
Yoshiharu Motoo,
Keiko Yukawa,
Kiichiro Tsutani,
Seong Gyu Ko,
Shinn Jang Hwang,
Fang Pey Chen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the chinese medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.535
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1728-7731
pISSN - 1726-4901
DOI - 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000131
Subject(s) - medicine , traditional medicine , alternative medicine , intensive care medicine , medline , pathology , law , political science
In Taiwan, numerous studies have been conducted to investigate the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). However, most of them focused on specific diseases or the use of particular methods. Therefore, the results of those studies were quite different and difficult to compare with those of studies from other countries. The International CAM Questionnaire (I-CAM-Q), meanwhile, is a unified tool that can provide comparable results for studies conducted worldwide. Thus, the aim of this study was to discover the proportions of people in Taiwan receiving CAM treatments from different types of health care providers by using an adapted version of I-CAM-Q (I-CAM-QT).