Self-reported efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine: the Akershus study of chronic headache

BACKGROUND: Chronic headache is associated with disability and high utilisation of health care including complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). FINDINGS: We investigated self-reported efficacy of CAM in people with chronic headache from the general population. Respondents with possible self-r...

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Autores principales: Kristoffersen, Espen Saxhaug, Aaseth, Kjersti, Grande, Ragnhild Berling, Lundqvist, Christofer, Russell, Michael Bjørn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2013
Materias:
Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23596996
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1129-2377-14-36
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Chronic headache is associated with disability and high utilisation of health care including complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). FINDINGS: We investigated self-reported efficacy of CAM in people with chronic headache from the general population. Respondents with possible self-reported chronic headache were interviewed by physicians experienced in headache diagnostics. CAM queried included acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, naprapathy, physiotherapy, psychological treatment, and psychomotor physiotherapy. Sixty-two % and 73% of those with primary and secondary chronic headache had used CAM. Self-reported efficacy of CAM ranged from 0-43% without significant differences between gender, headache diagnoses, co-occurrence of migraine, medication use or physician contact. CONCLUSION: CAM is widely used, despite self-reported efficacy of different CAM modalities is modest in the management of chronic headache.

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