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Article: Acupuncture use among american adults: What acupuncture practitioners can learn from national health interview survey 2007?
Title | Acupuncture use among american adults: What acupuncture practitioners can learn from national health interview survey 2007? |
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Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | Hindawi Publishing Corporation. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/ |
Citation | Evidence-Based Complementary And Alternative Medicine, 2012, v. 2012 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper examined the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2007 and explored acupuncture users sociodemographics characteristics, reasons and the nature of acupuncture use, and the relationship of such use with conventional medical care. All individuals who completed adults core interviews (N = 23,393) were included. Three subsets of samples (nonuser, former user, and recent user) were used in the analysis performed in Stata. Our findings revealed that ever acupuncture user (including former and recent user) increased from 4.2% to 6.3% of the population, representing 8.19 million and 14.01 million users in 2002 and 2007, respectively. We expected this trend to continue. People not only used acupuncture as a complementary and alternative approach to conventional treatment for a specific health condition, but also used it as a preventive means to promote general health. Effectiveness and safety appeared not to be the main predictors of acupuncture use; rather, awareness, cost, and insurance coverage played a bigger role in decision making. Copyright 2012 Yan Zhang et al. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/188650 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 2.650 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Y | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lao, L | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Chen, H | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ceballos, R | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-09-03T04:10:51Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2013-09-03T04:10:51Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Evidence-Based Complementary And Alternative Medicine, 2012, v. 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1741-427X | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/188650 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examined the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2007 and explored acupuncture users sociodemographics characteristics, reasons and the nature of acupuncture use, and the relationship of such use with conventional medical care. All individuals who completed adults core interviews (N = 23,393) were included. Three subsets of samples (nonuser, former user, and recent user) were used in the analysis performed in Stata. Our findings revealed that ever acupuncture user (including former and recent user) increased from 4.2% to 6.3% of the population, representing 8.19 million and 14.01 million users in 2002 and 2007, respectively. We expected this trend to continue. People not only used acupuncture as a complementary and alternative approach to conventional treatment for a specific health condition, but also used it as a preventive means to promote general health. Effectiveness and safety appeared not to be the main predictors of acupuncture use; rather, awareness, cost, and insurance coverage played a bigger role in decision making. Copyright 2012 Yan Zhang et al. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Hindawi Publishing Corporation. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/ | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine | en_US |
dc.title | Acupuncture use among american adults: What acupuncture practitioners can learn from national health interview survey 2007? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Lao, L: lxlao1@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Lao, L=rp01784 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1155/2012/710750 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84860797383 | en_US |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-84860797383&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000301374000001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Zhang, Y=55739973100 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Lao, L=7005681883 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Chen, H=55743108000 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Ceballos, R=55277525900 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1741-427X | - |