ArticleInternational journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2010
Understanding unexpected courses of multiple sclerosis among patients using complementary and alternative medicine: A travel from recipient to explorer.
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- Level of attitude toward complementary and alternative medicine among Iranian patients with multiple sclerosis.Iranian journal of neurology · 2014Article
- Exclusive use of alternative medicine as a positive choice: a qualitative study of treatment assumptions among people with multiple sclerosis in denmark.International journal of MS care · 2014Article
- Individualised medicine from the perspectives of patients using complementary therapies: a meta-ethnography approach.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2013Article
- A Patient-defined "Best Case" of Multiple Sclerosis Related to the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.Global advances in health and medicine · 2012Article
- The NAFKAM International Registry of Exceptional Courses of Disease Related to the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.Global advances in health and medicine · 2012Review
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- The path to self-management: a qualitative study involving older people with multiple sclerosis.Physiotherapy Canada. Physiotherapie Canada · 2012Article
- Types of treatment collaboration between conventional and alternative practitioners-results from a research project at a Danish MS hospital.International journal of integrated care · 2010Article
- Perspectives of People with Multiple Sclerosis About Helminth Immunotherapy.International journal of MS careArticle
- Factors Associated With Medication Use Among Individuals Living With Multiple Sclerosis.Journal of evidence-based integrative medicineArticle
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Abstract
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is frequently used by patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Some MS patients experience unexpected improvements of symptoms, which they relate to their use of CAM. The aim of this study was to obtain knowledge and develop understandings of such self-defined unexpected improvement of MS symptoms. Two cases were constructed based on documents and 12 qualitative interviews. Our aim was not to make generalisations from the cases, but to transfer knowledge as working hypotheses. We identified four health-related change processes: the process of losing bodily competence; the process of developing responsibility; the process of taking control; and the process of choosing CAM. The patients explained unexpected improvements in their MS symptoms as results of their own efforts including their choice and use of CAM. In our theoretical interpretations, we found the patients' redefinition of history, the concept of treatment and the importance of conventional health care to be essential, and leading to a change of patients' position towards conventional health care from recipients to explorers. The explorers can be perceived as boundary walkers reflecting limitations within the conventional health care system and as initiators regarding what MS patients find useful in CAM.
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