Complementary and Alternative Medicine Quiz
Ten questions to test your smarts
The following complementary and alternative medicine quiz from the Mayo Clinic was eye-opening. If you like, test your knowledge in the following quick quiz. The Health Hound hopes you learn something new about this type of medicine. - The most commonly used alternative and complementary therapy in the United States is:
a) prayer
b) meditation
c) herbal supplements
d) chiropractic care
- The percentage of American adults who use some form of complementary or alternative medicine is:
a)27%
b)49%
c) 62%
d) 84%
- Women are more likely to use complementary therapies than men are:
a) true
b) false
- The most common condition for which people turn to complementary and alternative medicine is:
a) anxiety
b) arthritis
c) back pain
d) common cold
- The most common reason people give for using a complementary or alternative therapy is:
a) thought it would be interesting to try
b) wanted to try something in addition to conventional treatments
c) thought conventional treatments wouldn't help
d) their doctor suggested it
- Approximately how much money is spent yearly on complementary and alternative therapies?
a) $36 million to $47 million
b) $360 million to $470 million
c) $3.6 billion to $4.7 billion
d) $36 billion to $47 billion
- Some forms of complementary and alternative medicine have been practiced for more than 1,000 years.
a) true
b) false
- "Integrative medicine" refers to:
a) healing of mind, body and spirit
b) whole-body treatment vs. symptoms-based care
c) combining complementary and alternative therapies with conventional medicine
d) all of the above
- Diet and exercise are the foundation of optimal health:
a) true
b) false
- Studies don't support a correlation between mental and physical health:
a) true
b) false
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