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The general aim of this article was to examine individual experiencesof choosing and using CAM. Moreover, it was also to answer questionsabout why people choose treatments outside conventional medicine andor/public health care, how choices are carried out in practice, how use ofCAM is experienced compared to conventional treatments, and how usedevelop over time. In analysing experiences of choosing and using CAMfour main themes were identified: frustration and critique, values andideology, individual responsibility, and combining treatments. In general,the participants were highly reflexive on issues concerning theirhealth. They highlighted their own role and responsibility and were willingto take some risks. They combined a variety of treatments, both conventionaland CAM, even if they had relatively different approaches to ifand when to choose CAM and/or conventional treatments. It was alsopossible to detect changes over time. Even if initial choices were closelyrelated to disappointment, failure, and critique of conventional healthcare (for example, by perceiving conventional health care as narrow andlimited, not being accurately diagnosed, or being critical to conventionaldrugs and routine prescriptions), long-term use was motivated by ideologicalcharacteristics of CAM treatments (such as holistic and individualizedtreatments, and extensive interaction with practitioners).
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