NURSING HLT 306 wk 5 dq 2.

What are the_ percentages of people using CAM with prayer and those who do not? The patterns regarding the use of complementary and alternative medicine among the general population have been established in which the 2002 data depicts the number of persons who use CAM with prayer and those who do not. In the investigation, it was found that CAM therapy represented one of the highly common form of prayer that was being used by well over 60 percent of the individuals involved in the survey. On this issue, it has also been pointed out that the use of complementary and alternative medicine has increased in a dramatic fashion over the past few years. It is also observed that “Several studies of CAM utilization reveal that reported use increases dramatically and may even double when prayer is included in the definition of CAM” (Ernst, 2015). Among the 60 percent of people who