Integration of complementary medical treatments with rehabilitation from the perspectives of patients and their caregivers: a qualitative inquiry.
Clin Rehabil
; 23(8): 730-40, 2009 Aug.
Article
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| ID: mdl-19447842
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This article uses a qualitative design and examines how patients and their caregivers integrate pluralistic health practices into rehabilitation from their perspectives.DESIGN:
Ethnography was used as the framework for research design. Data were collected via participant observation, taped in-depth interviews and regular chart review, and all interviews were transcribed verbatim.SETTING:
An inpatient rehabilitation unit in Taiwan.SUBJECTS:
Twenty-one patients, their caregivers and their rehabilitation professionals.RESULTS:
The patients and their caregivers used pluralistic illness explanations and treatments to make sense of their suffering, to control healing and to find the hope that rehabilitation professionals often deliberately avoided giving. Spiritual healing and therapies related to Traditional Chinese Medicine, such as functional food and herbal medicines, were popular alternative therapeutics. Although the patients and their caregivers perceived opposition from the medical staff on the unit, they used a variety of covert strategies to integrate their pluralistic illness explanations and treatments into their daily routines without openly challenging the rehabilitation primacy.CONCLUSION:
Aware of the rehabilitation staff's opposition, the patients and caregivers resorted to a variety of underground strategies to conceal their use of complementary medical treatments.
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Coleções:
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Centros de Reabilitação
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Automedicação
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
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Terapias Espirituais
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Medicina Tradicional Chinesa
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Clin Rehabil
Assunto da revista:
REABILITACAO
Ano de publicação:
2009
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Taiwan