| Pan JJ |
------>authors3_c=None ------>paper_class1=1 ------>Impact_Factor=0.887 ------>paper_class3=2 ------>paper_class2=1 ------>vol=59 ------>confirm_bywho=b521073 ------>insert_bywho=mongliang ------>Jurnal_Rank=75.6 ------>authors4_c=None ------>comm_author= ------>patent_EDate=None ------>authors5_c=None ------>publish_day=None ------>paper_class2Letter=None ------>page2=716 ------>medlineContent= ------>unit=E0120 ------>insert_date=20060112 ------>iam=4 ------>update_date=None ------>author=??? ------>change_event=4 ------>ISSN=None ------>authors_c=None ------>score=500 ------>journal_name=Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience ------>paper_name=The use of alternative medicine among Taiwanese psychiatric outpatients ------>confirm_date=20060203 ------>tch_id=090001 ------>pmid=16401248 ------>page1=711 ------>fullAbstract=The present study is intended to examine the use of alternative therapy and their help-behavior among patients who first visited psychiatric clinic in Taiwan. We recruited 150 patients from three general hospital psychiatric clinics. We collected the information of their demographic data, help-seeking behavior, and the use of alternative therapy, then screened them using Beck~s Depression Inventory, Beck Anxiety Inventory, and World Health Organization~s Quality of Life assessment. We found that 53 (35.3%) of 150 psychiatric outpatients visited an alternative therapists or received some type of alternative therapy at least once. Alternative medicine users were more likely to be married (P=0.004), to suffer from more intensive anxiety symptoms (P=0.018), to have visited more psychiatrists (P=0.006), to have visited more clinics (P=0.001), and to have taken longer between onset of the symptoms and their first visit to the psychiatric clinic (P=0.028). Based on these findings we suggest that alternative therapy plays important roles in the help-seeking behavior of Taiwanese psychiatric patients, and that alternative medicine users tend to delay proper psychiatric care. Clinicians should inquire about patients~ past history of seeking alternative therapy, build a firm trust in the doctor-patient relationship, and increase the compliance of psychiatric treatment in alternative therapy users. ------>tmu_sno=None ------>sno=12415 ------>authors2=Chen BY ------>authors3=Teng HW ------>authors4=Lu ML ------>authors5=Shen WW ------>authors6= ------>authors6_c=None ------>authors=Pan JJ ------>delete_flag=0 ------>SCI_JNo=None ------>authors2_c=None ------>publish_area=None ------>updateTitle=The use of alternative medicine among Taiwanese psychiatric outpatients. ------>language=2 ------>check_flag=None ------>submit_date=None ------>country=None ------>no=6 ------>patent_SDate=None ------>update_bywho=None ------>publish_year=2005 ------>submit_flag=None ------>publish_month=None |