{"id":2977,"date":"2015-11-04T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2015-11-04T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:08:14","slug":"wellness-related-use-of-common-complementary-health-approaches-among-adults-united-states-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/11\/04\/2977\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness-related Use of Common Complementary Health Approaches Among Adults: United States, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr085.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/sustainability\/workplace\/images\/5209037-642x965.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr085.pdf\">report<\/a> presents national estimates of selected wellness-related reasons for the use of natural product supplements, yoga, and spinal manipulation among U.S. adults in 2012. Self-reported perceived health outcomes were also examined. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">Data was taken\u00a0from 34,525 adults aged 18 and over collected as part of the 2012 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr085.pdf\">report<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">In particular, whether adults who used selected complementary health approaches did so to treat a specific health condition or for any of five wellness-related reasons was examined, as well as whether these adults perceived that this use led to any of nine health-related outcomes. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings from the Report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">Users of natural product supplements and yoga were more likely to have reported using the approach for a wellness reason than for treatment of a specific health condition, whereas more spinal manipulation users reported using it for treatment rather than for wellness. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">The most common wellness-related reason reported by users of each of the three approaches was for \u2018\u2018general wellness or disease prevention.\u2019\u2019 <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">The majority of users of all three health approaches reported that they perceived this use improved their overall health and made them feel better. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\"><span style=\"color:#211e1e;font-size:small\">Yoga users perceived higher rates of all of the self-reported wellness-related health outcomes than users of natural product supplements or spinal manipulation. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report presents national estimates of selected wellness-related reasons for the use of natural product supplements, yoga, and spinal manipulation among U.S. adults in 2012. Self-reported perceived health outcomes were also examined. Data was taken\u00a0from 34,525 adults aged 18 and over collected as part of the 2012 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53783,53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}