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Pediatric Health Care Providers’ Attitudes and Referral Predictors for Therapeutic Massage and Acupuncture

Cardiovascular Program at Children's Hospital Boston, mary.mclellan{at}tch.harvard.edu

Ellen Silver Highfield, LicAc

Alan D. Woolf, MD, MPH

Harvard Medical School, Academy at Harvard Medical School, Program in Environmental Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston

The objective of this study was to assess pediatric health providers’ attitudes, experience, and referral patterns with respect to therapeutic massage and acupuncture (TM&A). A written survey of experience with and attitudes about TM&A was distributed to a convenience sample of pediatric health care providers attending a regional postgraduate course in April 2002. Bivariate analyses were performed using Fisher’s exact test and the chisquare statistic. Pediatric care providers’ practices of referring patients to TM&A were associated with their own familiarity with and prior use of TM&A as well as their professed comfort level in discussing these modalities. There were no significant differences by professional status, gender, or years in practice in 42% of the respondents who reported making TM&A referrals. Pediatric health care providers’practices in referring patients for TM&A are positively associated with their familiarity with and personal use of TM&A.

Key Words: massage • acupuncture • integrative medicine

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