Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, 25 University Private, Room 138, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada.
BMC Complement Altern Med. 2014 Oct 14;14:394. doi: 10.1186/1472-6882-14-394.
Infertility patients are increasingly using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to supplement or replace conventional fertility treatments. The objective of this study was to determine the roles of CAM practitioners in the support and treatment of infertility.
Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted in Ottawa, Canada in 2011 with CAM practitioners who specialized in naturopathy, acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, hypnotherapy and integrated medicine.
CAM practitioners played an active role in both treatment and support of infertility, using a holistic, interdisciplinary and individualized approach. CAM practitioners recognized biological but also environmental and psychosomatic determinants of infertility. Participants were receptive to working with physicians, however little collaboration was described.
Integrated infertility patient care through both collaboration with CAM practitioners and incorporation of CAM's holistic, individualized and interdisciplinary approaches would greatly benefit infertility patients.
越来越多的不孕患者采用补充和替代医学(CAM)来补充或替代传统的生育治疗。本研究的目的是确定 CAM 从业者在支持和治疗不孕中的作用。
2011 年在加拿大渥太华进行了 10 次半结构式访谈,受访者是专门从事顺势疗法、针灸、中医、催眠治疗和综合医学的 CAM 从业者。
CAM 从业者在治疗和支持不孕方面发挥了积极作用,采用了整体、跨学科和个体化的方法。CAM 从业者认识到不孕的生物学因素,但也认识到环境和身心因素。参与者愿意与医生合作,但很少有合作的描述。
通过与 CAM 从业者合作以及采用 CAM 的整体、个体化和跨学科方法来整合不孕患者的护理,将使不孕患者大大受益。