Table 6 Continuum of conventional to complementary and alternative healthcare (Theme 6)
Component Statements | Agreement (%) | Neutral (%) | Disagreement (%) | Total (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Medical doctors feel comfortable with their patients seeing CAM practitioners. | 8 | 27 | 65 | 78 |
Pharmacists are knowledgeable about both conventional and CAM medicines. | 18 | 17 | 65 | 77 |
CAM practitioners are sufficiently trained to recognise when CAM are not enough and conventional medicine needs to be used. | 80 | 11 | 9 | 79 |
There is no need for my CAM practitioners and conventional practitioners to communicate, since the treatments they provide are different. | 18 | 10 | 72 | 81 |