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It is an approach that views relationships with practitioners as a priority [ 22].
Some women also reported that they would continue to use CAM even if they did not have private health insurance and irrespective of any evidence of efficacy because of the value they placed on the relationships with practitioners and the control they gain from this choice.
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This is perhaps surprising given that patients had an existing relationship with practitioners.
Developing such relationships with general practitioners (GPs) is a key component of the GSFCH.
Results indicated that consumers felt empowered by using CAM and they reported positive relationships with CAM practitioners.
Through community support, relationships with medical practitioners, personal efforts and sacrifices, the CHWs coped, improvised and worked together to serve their communities.
Where GPs described more constructive cross-disciplinary relationships, with CAMHS practitioners offering clinical updates of meetings, and where consultants were accessible by telephone, less anxiety was voiced.
A topic guide, developed from the literature, explored women's understanding of health and disease, ideas around prioritisation of health, self-management of their illness, help-seeking behaviours, challenges to accessing health services, and relationships with healthcare practitioners.
The rural nature of this sample in this study could affect the professional relationships with individual practitioners and predict referral, as smaller communities may facilitate increased interaction between CAM and conventional providers [ 22, 31, 32].
However, (and indicative of their highly valued relationships with specific practitioners) we note here that for five participants, mobility and pain were necessary albeit unfortunate prices to pay in order to visit a "treasured" practitioner whose practice was located further afield.
The most important "socio-cultural factor" that differentiated rural and urban areas was a more intense relationship with general practitioners expressed in rural areas, associated with increased visibility of general practitioners in the local community: in urban areas, participants expressed more "consumerist" attitudes to health care.
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