‘Trying to put a square peg into a round hole’: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ views of integrating complementary medicine into primary care for musculoskeletal and mental health comorbidity

Sharp, Deborah; Lorenc, Ava; Feder, Gene; Little, Paul; Hollinghurst, Sandra; Mercer, Stewart; MacPherson, Hugh

doi:10.1186/s12906-018-2349-8

BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Table 1 Participants in CAM practitioner focus groups

From: ‘Trying to put a square peg into a round hole’: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ views of integrating complementary medicine into primary care for musculoskeletal and mental health comorbidity

Code^a	CAM	Clinical setting	Statutorily regulated?	Voluntarily regulated?	NHS professional?	Practices in NHS?	Is your practice integrated into NHS?
A1.1	Mindfulness	Improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT), occupational therapy, pain clinic	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
A1.2	Yoga	Private	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
A1.3	Holistic massage, reiki	Private	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO
A1.4	Mindfulness	IAPT	NO	YES	NO	YES	YES
A1.5	Osteopathy	Private, in GP practice	YES	NO	NO	YES	NO
A1.6	Osteopathy	Private, in GP practice	YES	NO	NO	YES	NO
A1.7	Manipulation, Bach flowers, homeopathy, acupressure	General practice	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
A1.8	Pilates, yoga	Private	Missing data
A1.9	Massage, yoga (individual)	Private	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
A2.1	Tai chi, qigong	Private; chronic patients	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO
A2.10	Homeopathy, Director of integrative medicine centre	Community interest company; NHS	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
A2.2	Physiotherapy, adapted tai chi, Pilates	NHS rheumatology	YES	NO	YES	YES	YES
A2.3	Hypnotherapy	Private clinic with a physiotherapist	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
A2.4	Massage, reiki	Private osteopathy clinic attached to a GP surgery	NO	YES	NO	YES	Yes
A2.5	Acupuncture	Low cost clinic	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
A2.6	Acupuncture, meditation	Cancer centre, multi-bed clinic, community interest company	NO	YES	NO	NO	YES
A2.7	Tai chi	Private	NO	NO	NO	NO	NO
A2.8	Pain management	NHS pain clinic	YES	NO	YES	YES	YES
A2.9	Alexander technique, medical acupuncture	Nurse, NHS pain clinic	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
B1	Tai chi	Private; collaboration with NHS	YES	YES	NO	YES (PREVIOUS)	SOMETIMES
B2	Mindfulness	Charitable; previously local educational authority	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
B3	Mindfulness	Former GP; private	NO	YES	NO (retired GP)	NO	NO
B4	Microsystems Acupuncture	Private; charitable	NO	YES	NO	YES	NO
B5	Medical herbalist, nutritional therapist	Private	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
B6	Tai chi	Primary and secondary care and community mental health	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES
B7	Yoga therapy	Private	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
B8	Craniosacral, acupuncture, Kampo herbs	Private	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
C1	Chiropractic	Private	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
C2	Tai Chi and qigong	Private	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
C3	Hypnotherapy	Private	Missing data
C4	Chiropractic	Private	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
C5	Yoga	Hospital; private	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
C6	Physio	NHS Hospital	YES	N/A	YES	YES	YES
C7	Acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine	Private	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
C8	Hypnotherapy	Private; volunteer	NO	YES	NO	YES	NO
C9	Osteopathy, Heart Math, Alexander technique	Homeless health care; private	Missing data			YES	Missing data

^aAs two focus groups were conducted at Site A these are coded A1 and A2

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