- Title
- The profile of women who use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Australia
- Creator
- Adams, John; Sibbritt, David W.; Easthope, Gary; Young, Anne F.
- Relation
- Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 179, Issue 6, p. 297-300
- Relation
- http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_06_150903/ada10799_fm.html
- Publisher
- Australasian Medical Publishing Company
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- Objectives: To compare the characteristics of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) users and non-users among Australian women. Design: Cross-sectional postal questionnaire conducted during 1996, forming the baseline survey of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health. Participants: Women aged 18–23 years (n = 14 779), 45–50 years (n = 14 099) and 70–75 years (n = 12 939), randomly selected from the Health Insurance Commission database, with over-sampling of women from rural and remote areas of Australia. Main outcome measures: Consultation with an alternative health practitioner in the 12 months before the survey. Results: Women in the mid-age cohort were more likely to have consulted an alternative health practitioner in the previous year (28%) than women in the younger cohort (19%) or older cohort (15%). In all age groups, CAM users were more likely than CAM non-users to reside in non-urban areas, to report poorer health, have more symptoms and illness, and be higher users of conventional health services. Conclusions: Women in non-urban Australia are more likely to use CAM but do so in in parallel with conventional health services.
- Subject
- complimentary and alternative medicine; CAM; complimentary medicine; alternative medicine
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27555
- Identifier
- uon:1789
- Identifier
- ISSN:0025-729X
- Language
- eng
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