The final paper from our project entitled Demographic and psychometric predictors associated with engagement in risk-associated alternative healthcare behaviours was published in PLOS One in June 2024:
Garrett, B., Caulfield, T., Musoke, R., Murdoch, B., Tang, X., & Lam, J. S. T. (2023). Demographic and psychometric predictors associated with engagement in risk-associated alternative healthcare behaviours. PloS One, 18(9), e0291016. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291016
Our paper from the first phase of this project, entitled A taxonomy of risk-associated alternative health practices: A Delphi study, was published in Heath & Social Care in the Community in 2021, and is available here.
Garrett, B., Caulfield, T., Murdoch, B., Brignall, M., Kapur, A. K., Murphy, S., Nelson, E., Reardon, J., Harrison, M., Hislop, J., Wilson-Keates, B. J., Anthony, J., Loewen, P. S., Musoke, R. M., & Braun, J. (2021). A taxonomy of risk-associated alternative health practices: A Delphi study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 00, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/HSC.13386
Our paper provides a new functional definition of alternative health care, an initial taxonomy of risks associated with alternative health care practices, and a consensus amongst a range of diverse health professionals on the types and severity of risks encountered in alternative health care.
Other works related to this project are listed below:
Garrett B. (2021) The New Alchemists: The rise of deceptive healthcare. London. Hammersmith Books.
Garrett B.M. Musoke, R., Tang, X., Tam, J. (2023). Surveying Risk-Taking Behaviours in Alternative Healthcare: Methodological Considerations in the Use of Commercial Survey Panel Services. Sage Research Methods Cases.https://methods.sagepub.com/case/surveying-behaviours-healthcare-methodological-commercial-services
Caulfield, T. A. (2015). Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash. Toronto, Ontario. Penguin Canada.
Caulfield T. A., Marcon A. & Murdoch B. (2017) Injecting doubt: responding to the naturopathic anti-vaccination rhetoric. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 4(2):229-49.
Caulfield T., Ogbogu U. & Robertson G. (2013) The law, unproven CAM, and the referral challenge. Focus on Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 18(1):1-7.
Garrett B. (2021) Chapter 24: Alternative Health Strategies in C.L. Edelman & E.C Kudzma (Eds.) Canadian Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span. Toronto, Ontario. Elsevier. ISBN: 9781771722254
Garrett, B. (2021). Divinity in nursing: The complexities of adopting a spiritual basis for care. Nursing Philosophy, 22(3):e12355. https://doi.org/10.1111/NUP.12355
Garrett, B., & Riou, M. (2021). A rapid evidence assessment of recent therapeutic touch research. Nursing Open, 8(5), 2318-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/NOP2.841
Garrett B. (2018) Empirical Nursing: The Art of Evidence-based Care. Emerald. Oxford. https://bit.ly/2DiIi70
Garrett, B., Mallia, E., Anthony, J. (2019). Public perceptions of internet-based health scams, and factors that promote engagement with them. Health & Social Care in the Community. 27(5), e672-86. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12772
Garrett, B. Murphy, S, Jamal, S., Macphee, M., Reardon, J., Cheung, W., Malia, E., Jackson, C. (2019) Internet health scams—Developing a taxonomy and risk-of-deception assessment tool. Health & Social Care in the Community. 2019, 27(1), 226-40. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12643