NCCIH Supports Research Training for Complementary and Integrative Health Practitioners

May 20, 2022

Lanay Mudd, Ph.D.

Sara Rue, M.P.H.

Are you a complementary and integrative health practitioner or clinician-scientist? Are you looking for ways to gain more research experience in your field? Or are you a funded investigator looking for ways to incorporate practitioners with clinical training in complementary and integrative health practices into your research team or training program?

Asthma and Complementary Health Approaches

May 2022 Clinical Digest

Evidence does not support using complementary health approaches instead of proven medical management for asthma; however, when used in addition to proven medical management, complementary health approaches that help people with asthma manage stress, anxiety, or depression might help them feel better and improve their asthma control. This issue of the digest provides a summary of the current research on several modalities that have been studied for asthma, including acupuncture, breathing techniques, meditation, yoga, omega-3 fatty acids, probiotics, soy isoflavones, and vitamin D.

National Survey Data Show an Increase in the Percentage of Physician Office Visits That Include Complementary Health Approaches Between 2005 and 2015

The percentage of office visits at which physicians provided or recommended complementary health approaches more than tripled between 2005 and 2015, according to a new analysis of data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS). The analysis, which was performed by investigators from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and published in a recent issue of theJournal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine,also showed that visits that included complementary health primarily involved patients who were age 45 or older, female, non-Hispanic white, and covered by public or private health insurance.

Advancing Research on Emotional Well-Being and Regulation of Eating

June 23, 2022, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. ET; Videocast

Speaker:Elissa Epel, Ph.D.,Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry;Director, Aging, Metabolism, and Emotions Center;Director, Consortium for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment (COAST)

University of California, San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

Given the rising levels of global stress, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness and mental health problems are on the rise, adding to the burden of chronic diseases. Understanding and promoting emotional well-being (EWB) may yield another important strategy to accomplish this and significantly improve peoples health. Little has been known about how to best increase EWB in ways that also improve health. Dr. Epel is principal investigator of a new research network to develop resources and a multidisciplinary community of scholars focused on researching EWBits links to physical health, interventions that could best increase it, and the processes that explain how EWB impacts health. Dr. Epel will review findings and lessons learned from clinical trials, the lab, and the field.