{"id":232700,"date":"2026-03-06T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/trends-in-complementary-and-alternative-medicine-use-among-us-youths"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:14:45","slug":"trends-in-complementary-and-alternative-medicine-use-among-us-youths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/trends-in-complementary-and-alternative-medicine-use-among-us-youths","title":{"rendered":"Trends in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use Among US Youths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/trends-in-complementary-and-alternative-medicine-use-among-us-youths2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Complementary and alternative medicine use among US children rose from 4.6% in 2007 to 17.7% in 2022, especially yoga and meditation, with the biggest increases in younger age groups.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This cross-sectional study estimates the prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use among US youths aged 4 to 17 years in 2007, 2012, and 2022 overall and by sociodemographic factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complementary and alternative medicine use among US children rose from 4.6% in 2007 to 17.7% in 2022, especially yoga and meditation, with the biggest increases in younger age groups. This cross-sectional study estimates the prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use among US youths aged 4 to 17 years in 2007, 2012, and 2022 overall [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}