Communication and information needs about complementary and alternative medicine: a qualitative study of parents of children with cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many parents choose support such as Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for themselves and their children who have cancer. The aim of this paper is to describe, how parents who have children with cancer communicated with conventional health care providers about CAM, and what types and sources of information they would like to receive about CAM when the child was ill.

Method

This focused ethnography draws from in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted with 22 families in Norway with 24 adult participants (two couples), including two individuals who had had cancer themselves. Four domains were explored in the data analysis: the use of CAM, advice from laypeople about CAM, communication with conventional health care providers about CAM, and parents' inf

SUBMITTER: Stub T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7938468 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature