Complementary and Alternative Medical Practice: Self-care Preferred vs Practitioner-Based Care Among Patients With Asthma

Although this study supports previous work indicating that disease severity-in this instance, asthma within the past year-is significantly associated with CAM use, it did not support studies showing greater CAM use in the presence of a greater number of comorbidities, suggesting that disease burden is a limiting factor when it comes to self-care based CAM use.