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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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4196.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Oral | |||
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Alternative and complementary health practices have become increasingly popular. This session will address challenges and opportunities for professionals. Issues addressed include the frequency and type of CAM use and attitudes toward CAM use among different populations, CAM practices among patients, the value of loving kindness meditation in promoting civic engagement, and the role of institutional programmatic reform and academic collaboration in creating a system to conduct effective outcomes-oriented research in CAM to best meet defined public health agenda. | |||
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant (learner) in this session will be able to: 1. Describe the prevalence of CAM use in a college population 2. Explain how a Loving kindness meditation practice could promote a service learning agenda 3. Determine the extent of the use of, and attitudes toward, CAM practices among patients treated by a large Southeastern healthcare system 4. Identify the role of institutional programmatic reform and academic collaboration in creating a system to conduct effective outcomes-oriented research in CAM to best meet defined public health agenda. | |||
Adam Burke, PhD, MPH, LAc | |||
Promoting Civic Engagement: Loving kindness meditation and community service learning Adam Burke, PhD, MPH, LAc, Melanie Henderson, BA, Barry Kline | |||
College student use of complementary and alternative medicine Amy L. Versnik Nowak, MA, Steve Dorman, PhD | |||
CAM use in the Southeast: We need to talk Howell C. Sasser, PhD, Russell Greenfield, MD, Michelle Hogue, MS | |||
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
Organized by: | Alternative and Complementary Health Practices | ||
Endorsed by: | Chiropractic Health Care; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing |
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA