Alternative Medicine Fans More Likely To Get Shots

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I know of no one who is into alternative medicine who runs for a vaccination.

Absolutely no one.

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Alternative medicine fans more likely to get shots

Last Updated: 2008-03-14 15:35:10 -0400 (Reuters Health)

By Anne Harding

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults who use

alternative or complementary medicines are more

likely to receive recommended vaccinations than

their peers who don't use these products,

according to a study by researchers at the US

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Among 30,617 adults participating in the 2002

National Health Interview Survey, the 36 percent

who said they had used complementary or

alternative medicines (CAM) recently were more

likely to have received shots for preventing the

flu, pneumococcal infections and hepatitis B.

Nevertheless, most people the CDC considers

" priority " recipients for the flu and

pneumococcal vaccines because of a high-risk

condition didn't get them, Dr. Stokley of

the CDC's National Center for Immunization and

Respiratory Diseases in Atlanta and her colleagues found.

Among these priority adults, 44 percent of CAM

users had a flu shot, compared with 38 percent of

people who were not CAM users. Forty percent of

priority adults who had used alternative medicine

recently received a pneumococcal vaccine compared

with 33 percent of non-users. All of these

differences were statistically significant.

Sixty percent of priority adults who were also

alternative medicine users had received their

hepatitis B vaccine compared with 56 percent of

non-users, which wasn't a statistically significant difference.

Immunization rates for non-priority study

participants were also higher among CAM than

non-CAM users for all three vaccines.

Because parents who are alternative medicine

adherents may be more likely to reject

immunization for their children, Stokley noted in

an interview, she and her colleagues expected

that adult CAM users would have a similar

reluctance to get vaccinated. But the opposite was true.

Perhaps, she explained, these adults tend to use

CAM as a complement to their regular medical care

rather than a replacement for it. " We did notice

that people who had used CAM in the past 12

months did make more doctor visits to their other

physicians, " Stokley said. " They may be more

engaged with the health care system and they may

be more proactive about preventing illness. "

The findings suggest that it might be possible to

increase vaccine coverage among adults by working

with CAM practitioners, the investigators conclude.

SOURCE: BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, online February 22, 2008.

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