Background: Chronic pain is a major public health concern in Canada, with an estimated annual cost of $6 billion in direct health care expenses. At the same time, Canadians are participating in an increased use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies.
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative research study was to examine the relationship between the use of CAM and HRQOL for individuals living with chronic pain.
Method: This study was a secondary data analysis of the nationally representative Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 3.1 Subsample 1 collected by Statistics Canada in 2005 (n=32,133).
Results: The prevalence of CAM use for the Canadian population was 20.9% whereas for the chronic pain subset, it was 30.8%. CAM users had 1.48 times increased odds of reporting a high HRQOL than non-CAM users (CI=1.16-1.88).
Conclusion: These results demonstrate that a modest but significant positive association exists between CAM use and a high HRQOL.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/23423 |
| Date | 09 April 2014 |
| Creators | Friesen, Elizabeth Louise |
| Contributors | Chase, Robert (Community Health Sciences), Afifi, Tracie (Community Health Sciences) Roy, Ranjan (Social Work) Shooshtari, Shahin (Community Health Sciences) |
| Source Sets | University of Manitoba Canada |
| Detected Language | English |
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