Charlotte Paterson

..What benefits and problems do such people perceive and experience as important? To what extent do three subjective health questionnaires encompass and measure these treatment effects?..

..Acupuncture is increasingly used as an adjunct to IVF, in this preliminary study we sought to investigate the experience of infertile women who had used acupuncture to improve their fertility...

..We explored these issues within a randomized sham-acupuncture controlled trial of traditional Chinese acupuncture for people with migraine...

..To investigate patients' perspectives of the process and outcome of Western-style acupuncture for chronic health problems. To use these results to inform the provision of acupuncture in health services in the UK...

..To describe a massage therapy and training programme in a remote Aboriginal community in Australia and to develop the frameworks, procedures and processes necessary for future research...

..Specifically, the paper addresses how this analysis deepens our understanding of holism and its relation to the therapeutic theory base...

..In the context of medical research into the efficacy or effectiveness of an intervention the term 'outcomes' has often been interpreted to mean single endpoints with a linear cause and effect link to an external intervention...

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..Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS) are common and difficult to treat...

..Traditional acupuncture may offer such a perspective, but its use for these patients has not been investigated...

..The most notable barrier was the perceived polarization of complementary therapies and biomedicine; patients reported better experiences in integrated settings...

..In this paper, we explore the two synthesis concepts of 'polarization' and 'integration', and their relationship to health service policies and guidelines on integrated services...

..We used a longitudinal research design to investigate how the experience, and the effects, of a course of acupuncture evolved over time...

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..To carry out a pilot study, with particular attention to adequacy of outcome measures...

..To analyse the co-construction of self-care advice in traditional acupuncture consultations...

..The study concludes that qualitative evaluations have an important role to play in questionnaire design and development and are likely to lead to more modest and realistic appraisals of outcome questionnaire performance...

..The aim was to investigate the acceptability and perceived advantages and disadvantages of acupuncture delivered in the group setting for the treatment of knee OA...

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..This study sought to identify and evaluate outcome questionnaires suitable for quantifying changes in self-concept in people with long-term conditions, in the context of treatment with acupuncture and Chinese medicine...

..As one consumer said: 'You have to take small steps to go a long way'...

..Evaluation of the program was a key aspect of its implementation, requiring an appropriate process to identify specific problems and formulate solutions to improve the service...

..There is a long history of topical use of nettle sting for pain, but no standard method of application. Our objective was to develop a consensus of the experiences of nettle sting users...

..We searched for validated self-completion questionnaires suitable for measuring change in medication...

..DISCUSSION: MYCaW is a questionnaire that is appropriate for the service offered, acceptable to patients, practitioners and researchers, and is responsive to change. Further validation work is planned...

..The goal of this study is the determination of key themes to aid the analysis of qualitative data collected at three cancer support centres in England, using the Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing (MYCaW) questionnaire...