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Determinants of the Use of Four Categories of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920 dhendrickson{at}eiu.edu

Brett Zollinger, PhD

Docking Institute of Public Affairs; Department of Sociology and Social Work at Fort Hays State University

Roseanna McCleary, PhD

Department of Social Work, California State University, Bakersfield

The purpose of this research is to assess the social and health determinants of the use of four separate and distinct categories of complementary and alternative medical therapies: biologically based, mind-body, manipulative, and whole CAM medical systems. The behavioral model of health services use, which holds that health service use is a function of predisposing, enabling, and need characteristics, is used as the theoretical framework for linking specific determinants with the four categories of CAM use. Data are taken from a statewide interview survey of Kansas adults (N = 2,166) conducted in 2001. Results from multivariate analyses demonstrate that there is variation in the determinants of the use of different categories of CAM therapies. Overall, the results indicate that future research on the determinants of CAM must delineate between various CAM therapies to gain an accurate portrayal of the factors contributing to CAM use.

Key Words: complementary and alternative medicine • behavioral model of health services use • CAM determinants/predictors

Complementary Health Practice Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, 3-26 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1533210106288080


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