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Accepted: 14 August 2023

First Online: 7 November 2023

Declarations

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: This study was funded by the University of Auckland Postgraduate Research Student Support (PReSS) account, which provides funds for doctoral students to help cover direct research costs.

: E.L. has received a bursary from the University of Maryland School of Medicine/Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field for working on a Cochrane Systematic Review and is currently a doctoral candidate studying the prevalence of use of TCAM and conventional medicines in New Zealand; part of this work is funded by a Health Research Council grant (2020-2022) for which J. Barnes is the principal investigator. J.H. was a co-investigator for a Health Research Council grant that explored prevalence of use of TCAM and conventional medicines in New Zealand. J.B. has: received fees, honoraria and travel expenses from the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) for preparation and delivery of continuing education material on complementary medicines (CMs) for pharmacists (2013, 2015); provided consultancy to the Pharmacy Council of New Zealand on Code of Ethics statements on complementary medicines (unpaid) and competence standards (paid); was a member of the New Zealand Ministry of Health Natural Health Products (NHPs) Regulations Subcommittee on the Permitted Substances List (2016-2017), and led the Herbal and Traditional Medicines Special Interest Group (2017-2022) of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance. J.B. is a registered pharmacist (academic) in NZ and has a personal viewpoint that supports regulation for NHPs/complementary medicines. J.B. was the principal investigator for a Health Research Council grant that explored prevalence of use of TCAM and conventional medicines in New Zealand. J.B. has undertaken other research exploring pharmacists’ views on and experiences with complementary medicines, supported by: the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB), New Zealand Pharmacy Education and Research Fund; University of Auckland. J.B. was the principal author of a reference textbook on complementary medicines and received royalties from Pharmaceutical Press, the publishing arm of the RPSGB. J.B. is a co-author/co-editor of other books relevant to complementary medicines and receives royalties from Elsevier and SpringerNature/MacMillan Education. As a member of the School of Pharmacy staff, University of Auckland, J.B. has interactions with individuals in senior positions in the pharmacy profession. The School of Pharmacy has strategic relationships with several pharmacy organisations and receives support in various forms, such as sponsorship of student prizes/events and guest lectures given by individuals from those organisations.

: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available as the researchers do not have the permissions from the participants or from a research ethics committee to share the data.

: Not applicable.

: The questionnaire testing study was approved by the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee on 08/03/2021 for three years with reference number UAHPEC2550.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

: Not applicable.

: All authors contributed to the idea for the article. E.L. drafted the article, and J.B. and J.H. critically revised the work. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.