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Associated Factors of Utilization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Psychiatric Patients of Chronic Ward.

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is distinct from orthodox western medicine. In the modern time¡Adue to chronic disease increase year by year and the consumer¡¦s concept of health is not merely without disease. These had changed the people¡¦s seeking medical help behavior. Western medicine in controlling and treating of acute disease had achieved remarkable results, but of chronic disease is disappointed due to chemical drugs long tern side effects. Complementary and alternative medicine relative to western medicine is more nature and modest without severe side effect. In many studies , people utilization of CAM as medical treatment increase year by year.
In this study , I will explore the using conditions and degrees of CAM of patients in chronic psychiatric ward. We purposely select the patients and under the informed consensus of patient we apply questionnaires to them.
After collecting the questionnaires, we perform statistic analysis. According to statistic results, we discuss the clinical meaning and hope to offer some valuable informations to mental heath providers.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0804109-184318
Date04 August 2009
CreatorsWang, Shiou-Ping
ContributorsD r.Shyh-Jer Chen, Dr. Shu-Chuan Jennifer Yeh, Dr.Ying-Chun Li
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0804109-184318
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