Utilising acupuncture for mental health; a mixed-methods approach to understanding the awareness and experience of general practitioners and acupuncturists.

CONCLUSIONS: This study is the first in New Zealand to seek quantitative data and qualitative views regarding alignment about mental health management approaches and the use of acupuncture. This has the potential of improving healthcare outcomes through better inter professional communication and by contributing to better trans-cultural understandings on healthcare issues. The results of this research, whilst looking at the communication model between acupuncture and primary health care, will have easily generalizable findings for other necessary interprofessional communication strategies. This is the first time that the role and potential of the relatively untapped resource base of acupuncture within the health sector has been investigated within a New Zealand context. PMID: 32379653 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Complement Ther Clin Pract Source Type: research