Attitudes toward integration of complementary and alternative medicine in primary care: perspectives of patients, physicians and complementary practitioners

Patient Education and Counseling
Eran Ben-AryeMoshe Scharf

Abstract

Our study explored the attitudes of patients toward complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use, their family physicians' role regarding CAM, and models for CAM referral and treatment. We compared patients' perspectives regarding integration of CAM into primary care with attitudes of primary care physicians (PCPs) and CAM practitioners. We conducted a comprehensive literature review and focus group discussions to develop a questionnaire, which we gave to three groups: a random sample of patients receiving care at an academic family medicine clinic and PCPs and CAM practitioners employed in the largest health maintenance organization in Israel. A total of 1150 patients, 333 PCPs, and 241 CAM practitioners responded to our questionnaire. Compared with PCPs, patients expected their family physician to refer them to CAM, to have updated knowledge about CAM, and to offer CAM treatment in the clinic based on appropriate training. When asked about CAM integration into medical care, more patients expected to receive CAM in a primary care setting compared to PCPs' expectations of prescribing CAM (62% vs. 30%; p=0.0001). Patients, CAM practitioners, and PCPs expected family practitioners to generate CAM referrals in an integrative p...Continue Reading

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