Why do parents take their children to homeopaths? -- an exploratory qualitative study

Forschende Komplementärmedizin = Research in Complementary Medicine
Aslak SteinsbekkSarah Brien

Abstract

There has been a threefold increase in the proportion of children among patients visiting homeopaths in Norway from 1985 to 1998. As no study has investigated the reasons for this increase, the aim of the present study was to explore why parents take their children to homeopaths. In this qualitative study, parents who had taken their child to a homeopath for the first time during the last 3 months were interviewed in depth using a semi-structured interview guide. The interviews were analysed using thematic analysis based on techniques from grounded theory. 9 parents were interviewed. Parents consulted a medical doctor to clarify how serious their child's health condition was, and sought treatment from a homeopath if the symptoms were not dangerous. Personal recommendations or personal experience of homeopathy were identified as being a main factor that triggered seeking treatment specifically from a homeopath. The reasons they sought an alternative, or rather complement, to conventional medical treatment were: they did not wish to give their child allopathic medication; they wanted to find an alternative treatment to their child's currently prescribed allopathic medication; they had ceased conventional medication due to its sid...Continue Reading

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