Systemic Lupus Care

Systemic Lupus Care

Statement of your Research Problem

Complementary and alternative therapies (CAT) encompass a diversity of health care systems, practices and products not prescribed by physicians practicing allopathic Western medicine and not taught in Western medical schools. Application of CAT remedies is known as 'complementary mode use' when it is adjunct to allopathic medicine and as 'alternative mode' when used instead of allopathic treatments.

Theories or Prior Research Related to the problem area.

CAT use is highly prevalent in the general population, particularly in subjects suffering chronic conditions. Prevalence of overall CAT use in the United States in 1997 was found ...