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  • Health Psychology
  • Medical Sociology

Background:

  • Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is widespread, yet understanding the underlying attitudes, particularly those leading to "dysfunctional CAM reliance" (forgoing biomedical treatment in life-threatening situations), remains crucial.
  • Identifying modifiable determinants of CAM use is essential for developing targeted interventions to improve patient outcomes and prevent mortality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To map the specific attitudes underlying complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use.
  • To identify attitudes associated with "dysfunctional CAM reliance" to inform intervention development.
  • To analyze modifiable determinants of CAM use at a specific level for practical application.

Main Methods:

  • Collected attitudinal belief data from 151 participants in Budapest with varying degrees of CAM use.
  • Analyzed CAM-related attitudinal beliefs using confidence interval-based estimation of relevance plots.

Main Results:

  • Significant differences in beliefs were observed between biomedical and CAM groups, particularly concerning trust in medical systems, the role of emotions in illness, and vitalism/Eastern concepts.
  • For general CAM users, intervention targets include beliefs in vitalism and distrust in biomedicine.
  • For dysfunctional CAM use, key beliefs involve "natural" cures and reliance on biomedical testing.

Conclusions:

  • This study uniquely scrutinizes CAM users separately to understand patterns of nonconventional medicine use and underlying cognition.
  • It pinpoints specific attitudes involved in dysfunctional CAM use, providing a foundation for future intervention development.
  • Such interventions are vital for preventing adverse incidents and mortality associated with forgoing biomedical care.