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Materials and Methods: This secondary analysis of 2012 National Health Interview Survey data involved 10,201 CAM users living in the United States who identified up to three CAM therapies most important to their health. Analyses assessed the extent to which participants reported that their CAM use motivated positive health behavior changes, specifically: eating healthier, eating more organic foods, cutting back\/stopping drinking alcohol, cutting back\/quitting smoking cigarettes, and\/or exercising more regularly. Results: Overall, 45.4% of CAM users reported being motivated by CAM to make positive health behavior changes, including exercising more regularly (34.9%), eating healthier (31.4%), eating more organic foods (17.2%), reducing\/stopping smoking (16.6% of smokers), or reducing\/stopping drinking alcohol (8.7% of drinkers). Individual CAM therapies motivated positive health behavior changes in 22% (massage) to 81% (special diets) of users. People were more likely to report being motivated to change health behaviors if they were: aged 18\u201364 compared to those aged over 65 years; of female gender; not in a relationship; of Hispanic or Black ethnicity, compared to White; reporting at least college education, compared to people with less than high school education; without health insurance. Conclusions: A sizeable proportion of respondents were motivated by their CAM use to undertake health behavior changes. CAM practices and practitioners could help improve patients\u2019 health behavior and have potentially significant implications for public health and preventive medicine initiatives; this warrants further research attention.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina55100632","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,25]],"date-time":"2019-09-25T03:51:18Z","timestamp":1569383478000},"page":"632","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Health Behavior Change and Complementary Medicine Use: National Health Interview Survey 2012"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"55","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8737-6662","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Felicity L","family":"Bishop","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK"},{"name":"Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Romy","family":"Lauche","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia"},{"name":"Sozialstiftung Bamberg, 96049 Bamberg, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Holger","family":"Cramer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia"},{"name":"Department of Internal and Integrative Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45276 Essen, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jonquil W","family":"Pinto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Brenda","family":"Leung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia"},{"name":"Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Helen","family":"Hall","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia"},{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3133-1913","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matthew","family":"Leach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia"},{"name":"Department of Rural Health, University of South Australia, Whyalla Norrie SA 5608, Australia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vincent CH","family":"Chung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM), University of Technology Sydney, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia"},{"name":"Jockey Club School of Public Health &amp; 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