Adapting I-CAM-Q for Korean CAM Survey

Using the original I-CAM-Q for a survey of CAM without adapting it to the environment of Korea makes the I-CAM-Q not suitable. Therefore, we first developed the adapted version of the I-CAM-Q for Korea by referring to the I-CAM-QJ, the adapted version of the I-CAM-Q for Japan [31 ]. We referred to the I-CAM-QJ because Japan uses traditional medicine derived from ancient China as the official medicine, and the cultural background for CAM is similar to that of Korea. To develop the I-CAM-QK (Korean version of I-CAM-Q; Additional file 1), the most important revision from the original I-CAM-Q was the addition of “Korean medical doctor” as a healthcare provider. In Korea, there are two types of medical doctors’ licences: one is for conventional medicine, and the other is for traditional medicine. Korean medical doctors can prescribe traditional Korean medicines and practice acupuncture and moxibustion and provide other traditional remedies. In addition, in the option list, CAM treatments that are used frequently, such as “Cupping”, in Korea were added. The herbal medicines listed in the options were changed to the most commonly used ones in Korea by referring to the documents of the National Health Insurance Service of Korea [32 ]. Additionally, we changed the options in dietary supplements by referring to the documents of the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of Korea [33 ].

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Lee J.A., Sasaki Y., Arai I., Go H.Y., Park S., Yukawa K., Nam Y.K., Ko S.G., Motoo Y., Tsutani K, & Lee M.S. (2018). An assessment of the use of complementary and alternative medicine by Korean people using an adapted version of the standardized international questionnaire (I-CAM-QK): a cross-sectional study of an internet survey. BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 18, 238.

Publication 2018

Acupuncture Dietary supplements Drug Food Healthcare provider Herbal medicines I cam Korean Medical doctors Moxibustion National health insurance Safety

Corresponding Organization : Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine

Other organizations : Gachon University, Kyung Hee University, Nihon Pharmaceutical University, Semyung University, Daejeon University, National Institute of Public Health, Kanazawa Medical University, Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Sciences

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