From: How to locate and appraise qualitative research in complementary and alternative medicine
Inclusion criteria: | Exclusion criteria: |
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Qualitative studies with patients | Qualitative studies with therapists |
Ethnographies | Perspectives of teaching personnel |
Grounded Theory | Quantitative questionnaire studies |
Content analysis | Mixed-Method studies with mainly quantitative studies |
Peer reviewed Journals | Surveys |
Published in English or German | Observational studies |
All ethnic groups | Review and theory papers, study design, secondary analysis |
Reasons for CAM | Randomized trials and outcome studies |
Motivation to use CAM | HTA quantitative reviews |
Patient perceptions of integrative medicine | Studies of patients’ information seeking of CAM |
Patient perceptions of individualized medicine | Studies with conditions of CAM use |
Patient / Therapist relation or interaction | Studies about questions of when and how CAM is used |
Studies 1980-2011 | Editorials |
 | Socioeconomic data analyses |