Factors influencing women’s decision-making regarding complementary medicine product use in pregnancy and lactation

Table 3 Information sources used by participants to find information on CMPs used in pregnancy and breastfeeding [33]^a

Information source category	Specific information sources within the overall category	Number of participants who reported use of the specific information source^b
(1) Information from health care practitioners (HCPs)	Trusted (primary) HCP	24
	Other HCPs: general advice	20
	CAM / Hospital Medication helplines	7
	Other HCPs: second opinion sought on specific CMPs	6
(2) Own and other pregnant or breastfeeding women’s experiences	Internet (google, blogs, social media)	22
	Own previous experience CMPs/CAM	21
	Other women’s experiences	19
	Intuition (used in final stages of the decision-making)	13
(3) Published research	Evidence-based quantitative research	13
	Hospital/University Databases	7
	Traditional Use	2
	Qualitative studies	1

^aInformation sources reported by this group of participants has been previously published [33]; this current paper reports on another set of findings from the in-depth interviews and focus group discussions
^bNumbers are not mutually exclusive - participants reported use of multiple information sources

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