Index to Chiropractic Literature
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ID 8692
  Title Nonmedical illness behavior: A model of patients who seek alternatives to allopathic medicine
URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2230605
Journal J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 1990 Oct;13(8):427-436
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This project investigated the process by which African-Americans in Chicago decided to access drugless, natural health care systems in conjunction with, or as alternatives to, orthodox medical care. The study focused on African-American users of the drugless, natural health care systems of chiropractic and naprapathy. The data for the study were qualitative and ethnographic, and included over 100 in-depth interviews, extensive field notes based on participant observation and related documents. The findings involved constructing a five-stage sequential model that describes the process of conversion to regular use of natural health care. The purpose of this article is to present a model of nonmedical illness behavior that can sensitize health care practitioners to the situational and contingent factors affecting patients' choices.

This abstract is reproduced with the permission of the publisher. Article only available in print.

 
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