Associations between healthy lifestyle behaviors and complementary and alternative medicine use: integrated wellness

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs
Joelle B KarlikKara M Kelly

Abstract

Conventional medicine, lifestyle modification, and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) are potential strategies to decrease the risk of late effects in pediatric cancer survivors. This study aimed to compare the characteristics and usage patterns of CAM and lifestyle therapies among survivors of childhood cancer. We report the results of a cross sectional survey comparing usage patterns of CAM and lifestyle therapies among childhood cancer survivors. CAM therapies were defined by NCCAM classifications and lifestyle therapies were defined as dietary changes, conventional supplements with dietary reference intake values, and exercise. One hundred fifty-five (95%) patients approached in person and 45 (34%) patients approached by mail consented to participate. Sixty-eight used at least one lifestyle therapy and 58% used at least one CAM therapy. CAM users had 4.7 times the odds of using lifestyle therapies than non-CAM users (P < .0001); the odds of using dietary change and conventional supplements was greater in CAM users than non-CAM users (odds ratio [OR] = 3.55, P < .0001 and OR = 4.80, P < .0001 respectively). Use of the top three CAM therapies was associated with overall lifestyle therapy use (OR = 12.52 and P < .000...Continue Reading

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Mar 10, 2015·Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs·Jun J Mao, Lorenzo Cohen
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Mar 1, 2016·American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine·Antonio Herbert LanchaLuciana Oquendo Pereira-Lancha
Mar 20, 2021·Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice·Anwesa Chatterjee

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