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Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Children's Asthma: Satisfaction, Care Provider Responsiveness, and Networks of Care

Betina Freidin

Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

Stefan Timmermans

University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

We explain why some caretakers opt for alternative medicine for the treatment of children's asthma whereas others do not. In the past 15 years, asthma care has been standardized, with clinical practice guidelines centered on advanced pharmacological regimes. Clinicians argue that with proper biomedical treatment and environmental control, asthma should be a manageable chronic disease. Yet many patients forego available pharmacological treatments for alternative medicine or complement prescribed drugs with unconventional treatments. On the basis of open-ended, in-depth qualitative interviews with 50 mothers of children with asthma, we argue that the experience with biomedical treatments, social influence in mother's network of care, concerns about adverse and long-term effects, health care providers' responsiveness to such concerns, and familiarity with alternative treatments explain why some families rely on alternative medicine and others do not.

Key Words: families • caregiving • users'experiences of health care • unstructured interviews • lay concepts and practices • sociology of medicine

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 18, No. 1, 43-55 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1049732307308995
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