Patients’ Reasons to Consider and Their Attitudes toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Table 1

Distribution of questions.

Topics	(a)	(b)
Introduction	1	0
Demographic data	8	0
Doctor-patient communication	27	8
(i) Scope and setting	6	1
(ii) Type of communication	7	3
(iii) Focus on AM	7	3
(iv) Conclusion	7	1
Experience: conventional medicine	4	2
Experience AM and CAM	6	6
Influence of family and friends	5	4
Sources of information	4	2

(a) main question; (b) questions for further inquiry. The bold values indicate the total number of questions in this block.