Objectives. To explore in a cohort of Queensland (Qld) GPs' their attitudes to; knowledge about; and practice behaviour regarding complementary medicines (CMs), and to identify their perceptions of need for information resources on CMs. Design. A faxed self-administered survey to a random sample of 800 GPs in Qld. Participants. 463 completed surveys were returned, representing a 58% response ra...

Background: The increasing attention and trend towards complementary and alternative medicine and the usage of such treatments in different nations has highlighted the need for their insertion into the medical curriculum from the basic and clinical sciences courses up to in Continued Medical Education (CME) programs. The familiarity of physicians with complementary therapies is of great importa...

Introduction: Complementary and alternative medicine is a group of diagnostic and therapeutic methods that are commonly used outside university education and are used by patients themselves. Some cancer patients use different types of CAM to reduce the complications of conventional therapies and improve their general condition, which is increasing. Determining the rate of complementary and alte...

Complementary feeding should fill the gap in energy and nutrients between estimated daily needs and amount obtained from breastfeeding from 6-month onward. However, homemade complementary foods are often reported for inadequacy in key nutrients despite reports of adequacy for energy and proteins. The aim of this study was to assess caregiver's complementary feeding knowledge, feeding practices,...

This research aims to examines the influence mechanism of complementary fit on repatriates’ innovation behavior. This research builds a theoretical model on complementary fit, knowledge transfer and innovation behavior, recognizes the moderating variable, creative self-efficacy. The empirical analysis data is collected from 260 repatriates from Multinational Corporations Xi’ an, Nanjing, Shangh...

Microscopic techniques allow to investigate samples based on various contrasts such as optical, electron or magnetic. Although specialized microscopic techniques often yield convincing and sufficient information, there are many systems where just one kind of contrast does not give the whole picture and needs complementary technique. A well-known example is the combination of electron and optica...

BACKGROUND Australian General Practitioners (GPs) are in the forefront of primary health care and in an excellent position to communicate with their patients and educate them about Complementary Medicines (CMs) use. However previous studies have demonstrated that GPs lack the knowledge required about CMs to effectively communicate with patients about their CMs use and they perceive a need for i...