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Almost 40 Percent in US Use Alternative Medicine
The 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the first time included children aged 17 and under who used non-conventional medical treatment including herbal supplements, meditation, chiropractic and acupuncture.
The survey questioned more than 23,000 adults and 9,400 parents on behalf a child about their health and the therapeutic treatment they were receiving.
The questionnaire included 36 types of commonly used CAM therapies in the United States: 10 types of provider-based therapies, such as acupuncture and chiropractic, and 26 other therapies that do not require a provider, such as herbal supplements and meditation.
A comparison of the 2007 CAM survey to the first one conducted in 2002 suggests that overall use of alternative medicine among US adults has remained relatively steady -- 36 percent in 2002 and 38 percent in 2007.
The latest survey, however, found "significant increases" in some types of CAM including deep breathing exercises, meditation, massage therapy and yoga.
Among adults in 2007, 17.7 percent used natural products including fish oil/omega 3/DHA, glucosamine, echinacea, flaxseed oil or pills, and ginseng.
The next most popular therapies included deep breathing exercises (12.7 percent), meditation (9.4 percent), chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation (8.6 percent), massage (8.3 percent) and yoga (6.1 percent).
Among the 12 percent of children who resorted to CAM, the most prevalent therapies were natural products -- fish oil/omega 3/DHA and flaxseed oil -- (3.9 percent), chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation (2.8 percent) deep breathing exercises (2.2 percent) and yoga (2.1 percent).
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