All externally-funded Competence Centers located at UiT Norway's Arctic University under the Department of Community Medicine (ISM) were in 2020 instructed to establish individual advisory groups before the end of 2021.
These groups will advise the centers' leaders on strategies and overall plans; on professional development and research, as well as on the progress and development of the Center's other activities.
Talk to you general practitioner (GP) about the use of CAM. Don't use products uncritically.
The starting point for any research project is a clearly articulated research question. This summary gives you an overview of common research methods and study design, with examples from researching complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).
We have made a check list to guide you towards safe choices.
Here are the laws and guidelines applying to patients, CAM providers and health personnel.
List of doctoral thesis, reports etc published in NAFKAMs Publication Series.
List of other oublications where our employees have contributed
Articles in scientific journals where NAFKAM employees have contributed.
Research shows that half of the cancer patients in Norway use different forms of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) during the course of disease. Many of these patients want to discuss the use of CAM with their GP or an oncologist/cancer nurse. Patients highly value health personnel’s assessment and knowledge of CAM, and appreciate their opinions. A discussion about CAM, which the provider should initiate, would strengthen the relationship between the patient and the provider.
The project is a collaboration between Gunnvald Kvarstein, MD, Ph.D., Professor Department of Clinical Medicine and the Pain Clinic UNN, Thomas Weiss, Ph.D. Professor for Biological and Clinical Psychology and Christian Puta, Ph.D. Institute of Sports Medicine, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, and Martha Menard, PhD, Vancouver, Canada.
Norway's National Research Center in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
We work to give you facts about complementary and alternative medicine, so that you can make safer choices for your health.
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