A Qualitative Study of the Communication Process for Medical Acupuncture in Family Medicine.

CONCLUSIONS: The emerging three-phase process of communicating acupuncture described here provides an initial model for teaching communication in the context of medical acupuncture. Given the exploratory nature of this initial study and the rarity of acupuncture treatment integrated into family medical settings, this is a first step in building knowledge in this realm of practice. Future research is needed to better understand the experience of patients who do not report notable results of acupuncture and to extend this study into other family medicine settings. PMID: 29762793 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Family Medicine - Category: Primary Care Tags: Fam Med Source Type: research