The Credibility of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Describe how a consumer’s attitudes and beliefs about CAM could affect the assessment of the reliability and credibility of source information about CAM.

Create five objective criteria to evaluate the credibility and reliability of a source of information on CAM. Discuss how you arrived at each criterion and how it can help assess the reliability of source information. Select a CAM therapy or modality and do research for information about this therapy or modality. Using the five objective criteria you created above, provide a review of one of the websites you found in your search and evaluate the reliability and credibility of the information it presents on CAM. Explain how the website met or did not meet each of the criteria you created.