Abstract
Australian and American studies have found higher annual rural complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use than predominantly metropolitan studies. Little has been written about variations in CAM use between rural places. The Perspectives on the Use in Communities of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (PUC-CAM) study explored CAM use in rural places through a survey of five rural and two metropolitan localities in Victoria, Australia. The survey was posted to 1308 people with a response rate of 40% (n=459). Metropolitan respondents’ current CAM use was 47% (n=46) and the rural respondents’ 54% (n=195), while lifetime use was 81%, (n=80) for the metropolitan respondents and 86%, (n=310) for the rural respondents. The respondents in agriculturally based rural places stayed with ‘established’ modalities such as chiropractic and massage therapy while in the sea change and peri-metropolitan places a wider range of modalities were used.
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