Race/Ethnicity and Women’s Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States: Results of a National Survey

Abstract

CAM use among racial/ethnic groups is complex and nuanced. Patterns of CAM use domains differ among groups, and multivariate models of CAM use indicate that ethnicity plays an independent role in the use of CAM modalities, the use of CAM practitioners, and the health problems for which CAM is used.

Attributes of Non-Hispanic Blacks That Use Chiropractic Health Care: A Survey of Patients in Texas and Louisiana

“…1 Fifteen out of the 20 survey questions were modeled after existing questions that have been used in health care survey research. The initial 8 baseline demographic questions (#1-8) for this survey were developed to be almost identical to those generated by Kronenberg et al 6 The remaining 12 survey questions were predominantly adapted from the The 3-page survey was printed only on one side of the paper in an attempt to prevent participants from missing questions that might be printed on the back of any page. The survey was printed in Arial size 11 font.…”

“…[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] In one study, for example, Barnes et al 10 demonstrated that 43.1% of white adults sought out CAM treatments in comparison to 25.5% of blacks. Furthermore, there is minimal research that provides an explanation as to why blacks use CAM less often.…”

“…[2][3][4][5][6][7]9,15,16,[26][27][28][29] In many instances, whites used chiropractic at least twice as often as blacks. 2,4,6,7,9,15,16,26,29 Some have attributed this difference to the perception of discrepancies of health care treatment by blacks, lower average educational levels of blacks compared to whites, and the lack of accessibility to doctors of chiropractic (DCs) in black communities. 2,4,20,21,30 Very little information currently exists in the literature that describes use of chiropractic by non-Hispanic black patients.…”

A proposed protocol for hand and table sanitizing in chiropractic clinics and education institutions

“…3 The demography of chiropractic patients is similar to that of the United States and crosses most social and economic categories, although minorities and lowest social and economic groups tend to seek out the care of a DC less frequently. 4 Previous assessments of chiropractic treatment tables in teaching clinics, although few in number, have found pathogenic microbes and allergens on table surfaces. [5][6][7][8][9] Hand hygiene and proper surface sanitizing are known to reduce the spread of pathogenic microbes in health care settings as well as reduce the presence of surface pathogens on treatment tables.…”

Possibilities of using melatonin in gynecology

“…При этом основным методом коррек-ции и профилактики климактерических рас-стройств на сегодняшний день остается за-местительная гормональная терапия (ЗГТ), однако ее применение нередко связано с развитием различных осложнений и наличи-ем противопоказаний у некоторых женщин [11,12]. Публикации результатов исследований Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS), Women`s Health Initiative (WHI), Million Women Study (MWS) в средствах массовой ин-формации стали причиной массового отказа от ЗГТ женщин по всему миру, что еще больше актуализировало интерес к альтернативным способам облегчения приливов жара [13,14]. Фитоэстрогены, психотропные препараты, средства, действующие на вегетативную нерв-ную систему, мультивитаминные комплексы, ра-стительные экстракты с большим или меньшим успехом используются в клинической практике.…”