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Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides a valuable and timely resource for those looking to understand, initiate and expand CAM research.

This collection brings together leading international CAM researchers with backgrounds and expertise in a variety of areas including health social science, qualitative methodology, general practice, health services research and public health. Drawing upon their own research work and experience, the contributors explain and review core methods and research issues pertinent to contemporary CAM and its future development. Topics discussed include:

  • the use and limitation of evidence in CAM research
  • the issues facing practitioners (GPs, therapists, nurses, etc) who wish to conduct research
  • how and why qualitative methods should be combined alongside quantitative methods to help explore CAM
  • how the randomised control trial (RCT) method relates to CAM
  • the future directi

    Table of Contents

    Introduction Part 1: Methods in Practice 1. Qualitative Methods in CAM Research 2. Systematic Reviews and CAM 3. Utilising Existing Data Sets for CAM Consumption Research 4. Towards the Application of RCTs for CAM 5. Combining Qualitative Methods and RCTs in CAM Intervention Research Part 2: Issues From the Field 6. Evidence and CAM 7. The Practitioner as Researcher 8. Public Health and CAM 9. Involving the Consumer in CAM Research

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    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
    Publication Date: 07/12/2006
    ISBN13: 9780415367745, 978-0415367745
    ISBN10: 0415367743
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Researching Complementary and Alternative Medicine provides a valuable and timely resource for those looking to understand, initiate and expand CAM research.

    This collection brings together leading international CAM researchers with backgrounds and expertise in a variety of areas including health social science, qualitative methodology, general practice, health services research and public health. Drawing upon their own research work and experience, the contributors explain and review core methods and research issues pertinent to contemporary CAM and its future development. Topics discussed include:

    • the use and limitation of evidence in CAM research
    • the issues facing practitioners (GPs, therapists, nurses, etc) who wish to conduct research
    • how and why qualitative methods should be combined alongside quantitative methods to help explore CAM
    • how the randomised control trial (RCT) method relates to CAM
    • the future directi

      Table of Contents

      Introduction Part 1: Methods in Practice 1. Qualitative Methods in CAM Research 2. Systematic Reviews and CAM 3. Utilising Existing Data Sets for CAM Consumption Research 4. Towards the Application of RCTs for CAM 5. Combining Qualitative Methods and RCTs in CAM Intervention Research Part 2: Issues From the Field 6. Evidence and CAM 7. The Practitioner as Researcher 8. Public Health and CAM 9. Involving the Consumer in CAM Research

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