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Open AccessEffect of traditional yoga, mindfulness–based cognitive therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy, on health related quality of life: a randomized controlled trial on patients on sick leave because of burnout
To explore if health related quality of life(HRQoL) increased after traditional yoga(TY), mindfulness based cognitive therapy(MBCT), or cognitive behavioral therapy(CBT), in patients on sick leave because of b...
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Open AccessWorld Congress Integrative Medicine & Health 2017: Part one
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Open AccessCaring touch as a bodily anchor for patients after sustaining a motor vehicle accident with minor or no physical injuries - a mixed methods study
Patients who sustain a motor vehicle accident may experience long-term distress, even if they are uninjured or only slightly injured. There is a risk of neglecting patients with minor or no physical injuries, ...
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Open AccessUsage and cost of first-line drugs for patients referred to inpatient anthroposophic integrative care or inpatient conventional care for stress-related mental disorders—a register based study
Stress-related mental disorders (SRMD) are common and costly. Rehabilitation strategies, including pharmacotherapy, may be complicated to evaluate. Previous research has indicated increased quality of life and...
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The Experience of Perinatal Depression and Implications for Treatment Adaptation: A Qualitative Study in a Semi-rural District in Vietnam
This study sought to provide an understanding of how perinatal depression is experienced, and how interventions targeting it should be adapted to suit the local context. The study was conducted in a semi-rura...
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Open AccessHigh prevalence but limited evidence in complementary and alternative medicine: guidelines for future research
The use of complementary and alternative Medicine (CAM) has increased over the past two decades in Europe. Nonetheless, research investigating the evidence to support its use remains limited. The CAMbrella pro...
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Spiritual Phenomena as Public Goods: Exploring Meditation Beyond the Standard Model
There are many academic and philosophical entry points available to us in describing the enigmatic effects of meditation. The standard model of enquiry logically starts with a neurobiological explanatory mode,...
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Science, Practice and Mythology: A Definition and Examination of the Implications of Scientism in Medicine
Scientism is a philosophy which purports to define what the world ‘really is’. It adopts what the philosopher Thomas Nagel called ‘an epistemological criterion of reality’, defining what is real as that which ...
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Open AccessA narrative review of factors influencing detection and treatment of depression in Vietnam
Depression is among the most common psychiatric conditions in primary health care, and constitutes an important part of the global disease burden. However, it is difficult to obtain comparable data on depressi...
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Open AccessTactile massage and hypnosis as a health promotion for nurses in emergency care-a qualitative study
This study explores nursing personnel's experiences and perceptions of receiving tactile massage and hypnosis during a personnel health promotion project. Nursing in a short term emergency ward environment can...
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Open AccessMental health priorities in Vietnam: a mixed-methods analysis
The Mental Health Country Profile is a tool that was generated by the International Mental Health Policy and Services Project to inform policy makers, professionals and other key stakeholders about important i...
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Open AccessExploring integrative medicine for back and neck pain - a pragmatic randomised clinical pilot trial
A model for integrative medicine (IM) adapted to Swedish primary care was previously developed. The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of a pragmatic randomised clinical trial to investigate the ...
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Open AccessMap** patterns of complementary and alternative medicine use in cancer: An explorative cross-sectional study of individuals with reported positive "exceptional" experiences
While the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among cancer patients is common and widespread, levels of commitment to CAM vary. "Committed" CAM use is important to investigate, as it may be ass...
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Open AccessTowards a model for integrative medicine in Swedish primary care
Collaboration between providers of conventional care and complementary therapies (CTs) has gained in popularity but there is a lack of conceptualised models for delivering such care, i.e. integrative medicine ...
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Open AccessResearching complementary and alternative treatments – the gatekeepers are not at home
To explore the strengths and weaknesses of conventional biomedical research strategies and methods as applied to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and to suggest a new research framework for assess...
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Open AccessCan biomedical and traditional health care providers work together? Zambian practitioners' experiences and attitudes towards collaboration in relation to STIs and HIV/AIDS care: a cross-sectional study
The World Health Organization's World health report 2006: Working together for health underscores the importance of human resources for health. The shortage of trained health professionals is among the main obsta...
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Open AccessCircular instead of hierarchical: methodological principles for the evaluation of complex interventions
The reasoning behind evaluating medical interventions is that a hierarchy of methods exists which successively produce improved and therefore more rigorous evidence based medicine upon which to make clinical d...
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Septal cholinergic afferents regulate expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor andβ-nerve growth factor mRNA in rat hippocampus
In situ hybridization was used to study the expression of members of the nerve growth factor family of trophic factors in rat hippocampus following stimulation of afferent cholinergic and glutamatergic pathway...
