Purpose An increasingly ‘screen-based’ culture raises concerns for the health and well-being of America’ sy outh. We investigated whether nature-based experiences affected the social well-being of young adults attending a threeweek wilderness camp. Methods Online survey...

Purpose Reflexology is one of the top six complementary therapies used in the UK. Reflexologists claim that massage to specific points of the feet increases blood supply to referred or ‘mapped’ organs in the body. Empirical evidence to validate this claim is scarce. Thi...

Purpose Acupuncture is gaining acceptance within the mainstream healthcare system in the UK. To date, research has focused on demonstrating its efficacy and effectiveness, with some qualitative studies analysing patients’ and practitioners’ perspectives. We examined two...

Methods In situ questionnaires were delivered face-to-face to 1108 users (54% response rate) of urban riverscapes in Sheffield, UK. First mentioned responses to an openended question about how they felt after leaving the area were content analysed. Resultant codes were ...

Methods We performed a systematic review of BDS use among adult Hispanics living in the US. Our strategy included electronic database searches (CINAHL, EMBASE, Global Health, CAB Abstracts, and Medline) with keywords: herbal, herb, medicinal plant, botanical and Hispani...

Purpose This survey aimed to generate preliminary data, in the face of inconsistent reflexology teaching literature, about two reflexology safety and quality control issues. First, whether reflexologists consider it safe to treat people with heart disease and if so, whe...

Purpose The health and well-being of America’s youth is increasingly in jeopardy due to a‘screen-based’ culture that decreases exposure to the natural world. We hypothesized that interactions with nature would promote physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual we...

Methods An online survey to a purposive sample of acupuncture practitioners in the EU and China in 2010/2011 requested information on demographic characteristics, training and education, acupuncture practice, conditions commonly treated, perceived gaps in the evidence a...

Purpose The prevalence of obesity in the U.S. has become a serious health threat in the last two decades. Despite increased use of integrative medicine (IM) for chronic disease, research on the utilization and effectiveness of IM for management of obesity is limited. Th...