background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is an unpredictable neurological disease leading to severe disability in young adults.  the  majority of ms patients  use  complementary and     alternative medicine  (cam)  as adjunct  to conventional  therapies.  this study  aimed  to  investigate the prevalence  of cam utilization among  iranian patients with ms and their attitude  toward the cam usage. me...

conclusions the results of this review showed that the number of studies on the use of complementary medicine in leukemia patients is very limited (especially in iran), and it can be the subject of numerous studies in the future. results the overall results showed that few studies have been conducted on the use of exercise, massage therapy, music therapy, acupressure, and healing touch in patie...

dental anxiety is defined as an abnormal fearing or dread toward preventive or therapeutic visits by a dentist and unreasonable anxiety against dental procedures. it is estimated that dental anxiety affects one-third of the general population. its physical and cognitive symptoms may result in behavioral issues such as avoidance of early dental visits that troubles both patient and dentist. in o...

this study aimed to evaluate the attitude of pediatricians toward the use of complementary and traditional medicine (tm) on children in muscat, oman. a cross-sectional survey was performed using a self-completed questionnaire during the year 2012. a total of 67 pediatricians, comprising of 30 males (44.8%) and 37 females (55.2%) participated in the study. the majority of the studied group (83.5...

introductions: due to versatility and wide range of health care services, the social care insurance organizations can not afford undertaking all health care services for the insured. this is why additional services are taken over by private or commercial health care insurance companies. such services are known as complementary insurance. in this study , it was decided to investigate the satisfa...

the purpose of this study was designing predictive model for innovation management in processing and complementary industries of livestock products. the method of research was correlative descriptive. the population of this research was managers in processing and complementary industries of livestock products of khouzestan province (n=486). by stratified random sampling, a random sample (n=125)...

results each group comprised 27 students; eventually, 26 in the homeopathic and 21 in the placebo group were followed up. there was no significant difference between the groups for either pain intensity (adjusted difference: -0.44; 95% ci: -1.43 to 0.54) or any other outcomes. compared with the baseline scores, statistically significant improvements were observed in pain intensity (p = 0.021) a...