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Education and Health Status Predictors of Alternative Medicine Use

Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 25th, 1998

Being more educated and having a less-than-optimum health status are predictors of who will likely use alternative medicine, according to an article in the May 20, 1998, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, 1998;279:1548-1553).

Alternative medicine users also tend to hold a philosophical orientation toward health that can be described as holistic and are more likely to have had some type of transformational experience that changed their world view in a significant way, according to John A. Astin, PhD, a researcher at Stanford University's School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California. Astin surveyed 1,035 randomly selected people from...

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